All choke back synonyms

verb choke back

• detain — When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
• subdue — to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
• restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• hamper — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
• govern — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
• curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• keep down — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• smother — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
• suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
• squelch — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
• strangle — 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.
• silence — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• fetter — a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
• chain — A chain consists of metal rings connected together in a line.
• direct — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
• harness — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
• circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• muzzle — the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
• debar — If you are debarred from doing something, you are prevented from doing it by a law or regulation.
• manacle — a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• impound — to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
• handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
• proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
• imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• bridle — A bridle is a set of straps that is put around a horse's head and mouth so that the person riding or driving the horse can control it.
• gag — to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• cool — Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
• delimit — If you delimit something, you fix or establish its limits.
• bind — If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• contain — If something such as a box, bag, room, or place contains things, those things are inside it.
• guide — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
• cork — Cork is a soft, light substance which forms the bark of a type of Mediterranean tree.