Dictionary Entry
choke
choke is a 5-letter English word with 26 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 26 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
- 2transitive verb
To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
- 3transitive verb
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
- 4transitive verb
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
- 5transitive verb
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- 6intransitive verb
To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
- 7intransitive verb
To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
- 8noun
A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
- 9noun
The tied end of a cartridge.
- 10noun
A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
- 11noun
a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
- 12noun
a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
- 13verb
breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
"She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
- 14verb
cause to retch or choke
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- 15verb
struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
"he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
- 16verb
constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
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- 17verb
reduce the air supply
"choke a carburetor"
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- 18verb
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
"She died from cancer"
"The children perished in the fire"
- 19verb
suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
"His job suffocated him"
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- 20verb
become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
"He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
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- 21verb
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
"The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
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- 22verb
become or cause to become obstructed
"The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"
"The water pipe is backed up"
- 23verb
be too tight; rub or press
"This neckband is choking the cat"
- 24verb
wring the neck of
"The man choked his opponent"
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- 25verb
check or slow down the action or effect of
"She choked her anger"
- 26verb
fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
"The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"
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