Scrabble & Words with friends points
- choke is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 14
- choke is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 14
- choke is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 14
Definition of choke
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled (verb)
Synonyms
- suffocate
- become or cause to become obstructed (verb)
Synonyms
- back up
- choke off
- clog
- clog up
- congest
- foul
- wring the neck of (verb)
Examples
- The man choked his opponent
Synonyms
- scrag
- a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current (noun)
Synonyms
- choke coil
- choking coil
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life (verb)
Synonyms
- buy the farm
- cash in one's chips
- conk
- croak
- decease
- die
- drop dead
- exit
- expire
- give-up the ghost
- go
- kick the bucket
- pass
- pass away
- perish
- pop off
- snuff it
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of (verb)
Synonyms
- asphyxiate
- stifle
- suffocate
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake (verb)
Synonyms
- gag
- strangle
- suffocate
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of (verb)
Synonyms
- suffocate
- reduce the air supply (verb)
Examples
- choke a carburetor
Synonyms
- throttle
- be too tight; rub or press (verb)
Synonyms
- fret
- gag
- cause to retch or choke (verb)
Synonyms
- gag
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing (verb)
Synonyms
- strangle
- a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine (noun)
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion (verb)
Examples
- She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband
- check or slow down the action or effect of (verb)
Examples
- She choked her anger
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation (verb)
Examples
- The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience
See definition of choke in Merriam Webster