Chokes Synonyms and Antonyms

Something used to fill a hole, space, or container
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. stoppers
  2. stops
  3. plugs
  4. fills
  5. corks
To be unsuccessful
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bombs
  2. flops
  3. fails
Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. suffocates
  2. gags
  3. stifles
  4. strangles
  5. smothers
  6. asphyxiates
Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. throttles
  2. strangles
Be too tight; rub or press
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. frets
  2. gags
Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. suffocates
Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. suffocates

Chokes Sentence Examples

  • The floods come in May and June, and during the wet season the rivers, all with steep beds in their upper courses, wash along detritus that lower down narrows, and on smaller streams almost chokes, their courses.

  • Could anyone tell me how to check that the automatic chokes are working correctly on my twin carbs?

  • Turning left at the T-junction a low passage enters an area of boulder chokes.

  • She doesn't bat an eye when she chokes down a sword while doing a reverse cowgirl.

  • Window in wall opens into twisting trench which soon rejoins stream in high passage lowering to shingle chokes upstream.

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