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chokedamp en · NOUN

Etymology

From choke + damp.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) A damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.
   • "Now, when you described the Wigan coal explosion last month, could you not have gone down and helped those people, in spite of the choke-damp?" "I did." "You never said so." "There was nothing worth bucking about." "I didn't know." She looked at me with rather more interest. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

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