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

1. transitive verb. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
2. transitive verb. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
3. transitive verb. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
4. transitive verb. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
5. transitive verb. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
6. intransitive verb. To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
7. intransitive verb. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
8. noun. A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
9. noun. The tied end of a cartridge.
10. noun. A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
11. noun. a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
12. noun. a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
13. verb. breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion

    "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"

14. verb. cause to retch or choke

    Synonyms: gag

15. verb. struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake

    "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

    Synonyms: gag, strangle, suffocate

16. verb. constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing

    Synonyms: strangle

17. verb. reduce the air supply

    "choke a carburetor"

    Synonyms: throttle

18. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: conk, croak, decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass, perish

19. verb. suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of

    "His job suffocated him"

    Synonyms: suffocate

20. verb. become stultified, suppressed, or stifled

    "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"

    Synonyms: suffocate

21. verb. impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of

    "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

    Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate

22. verb. become or cause to become obstructed

    "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"

    "The water pipe is backed up"

    Synonyms: clog, congest, foul

23. verb. be too tight; rub or press

    "This neckband is choking the cat"

    Synonyms: fret, gag

24. verb. wring the neck of

    "The man choked his opponent"

    Synonyms: scrag

25. verb. check or slow down the action or effect of

    "She choked her anger"

26. verb. fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation

    "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"

Synonyms

gag, strangle, suffocate, throttle, conk, croak, decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass, perish, asphyxiate, stifle, clog, congest, foul, fret, scrag

Common word forms

choked, choker, chokes, choking, chokeable

Words from these letters

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