All choke synonyms
choke
C c verb choke
- clog β When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
- congest β to crowd or become crowded to excess; overfill
- drown β to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- suffocate β to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- kill β to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
- gag β to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
- gasp β a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
- strangle β to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- stifle β to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
- fill β to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- obstruct β to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- close β When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- overpower β to overcome, master, or subdue by superior force: to overpower a maniac.
- suppress β to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- noose β a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- occlude β to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
- asphyxiate β If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
- dam β A dam is a wall that is built across a river in order to stop the water flowing and to make a lake.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- retard β to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
- stunt β to use in doing stunts: to stunt an airplane.
- squeeze β to press forcibly together; compress.
- wring β to twist forcibly: He wrung the chicken's neck.
- bar β A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
- stopper β a person or thing that stops.
- throttle β Also called throttle lever. a lever, pedal, handle, etc., for controlling or manipulating a throttle valve.
- die β When people, animals, and plants die, they stop living.
- stuff β the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
- constrict β If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
- garrote β a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- gibbet β a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
- strangulate β Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- block β A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
- smother β to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- cheque β A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
- stop up β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- plug β an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
- fill up β a full supply; enough to satisfy want or desire: to eat one's fill.
- halt β to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- weep β to express grief, sorrow, or any overpowering emotion by shedding tears; shed tears; cry: to weep for joy; to weep with rage.
noun choke
- draughts β a drawing, sketch, or design.
- full court press β Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.
- pressure β the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- gulp β to gasp or choke, as when taking large drafts of a liquid.
- draught β a drawing, sketch, or design.
- stranglehold β Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.