All choke point synonyms

noun choke point

• predicament — an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.
• conduit — A conduit is a small tunnel, pipe, or channel through which water or electrical wires go.
• bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
• course — Course is often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See of course.
• duct — any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
• trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
• cove — A cove is a part of a coast where the land curves inwards so that the sea is partly enclosed.
• water — a liquid solution or preparation, especially one used for cosmetic purposes: lavender water; lemon water.
• aqueduct — An aqueduct is a long bridge with many arches, which carries a water supply or a canal over a valley.
• watercourse — a stream of water, as a river or brook.
• ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
• channel — A channel is a television station.
• firth — John Rupert, 1890–1960, English linguist.
• dilemma — a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• mystification — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
• pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• perplexity — the state of being perplexed; confusion; uncertainty.
• plight — Archaic. pledge.
• squeeze — to press forcibly together; compress.
• vicissitude — a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
• crossroad — a road that crosses another road
• hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
• mess — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
• rigor — strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
• hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
• bewilderment — Bewilderment is the feeling of being bewildered.
• pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
• 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.
• contingency — A contingency is something that might happen in the future.
• turning point — a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis.
• zero hour — the time set for the beginning of a military attack or operation.