Definitions for chokes

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Spelling: [chohks]

IPA: /tʃoʊks/

Chokes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in chokes (cehkos).

Definitions for chokes

noun

1. a manifestation of caisson disease that is characterized by dyspnea, coughing, and choking.
2. the act or sound of choking.
3. a mechanism by which the air supply to the carburetor of an internal-combustion engine can be diminished or stopped.
4. Machinery. any mechanism that, by blocking a passage, regulates the flow of air, gas, etc.
5. Electricity. choke coil.
6. a narrowed part, as in a chokebore.
7. the bristly upper portion of the receptacle of the artichoke.

Verb phrases

1. choke off, to stop or obstruct by or as by choking:
2. choke up, to become or cause to become speechless, as from the effect of emotion or stress: to become too tense or nervous to perform well:

verb (used with object)

1. to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
2. to stop by or as if by strangling or stifling:
3. to stop by filling; obstruct; clog:
4. to suppress (a feeling, emotion, etc.) (often followed by back or down):
5. to fill chock-full:
6. to seize (a log, felled tree, etc.) with a chain, cable, or the like, so as to facilitate removal.
7. to enrich the fuel mixture of (an internal-combustion engine) by diminishing the air supply to the carburetor.
8. Sports. to grip (a bat, racket, or the like) farther than usual from the end of the handle; shorten one's grip on (often followed by up).

verb (used without object)

1. to suffer from or as from strangling or suffocating:
2. to become obstructed, clogged, or otherwise stopped:

Origin of chokes

See origin at choke, -s³

Examples for chokes

Exhausted from the chronic pain that pulsates through her body day and night, she chokes up on the phone.

When it comes to putting his hand in his pocket—it chokes him off.

After further agitation, Innis chokes Metzger and mayhem ensues.

She reluctantly gulps it down, chokes, and allows little rivers of green juice to dribble from the corner of her mouth.

It only hurries the respiration, and chokes the pulmonary vessels.

Walt actually takes the bike lock and chokes Krazy-8 (Maximinio Arciniega) with it.

It's like chewing dough—it sticks in your throat and chokes you.

The laughing-fit and the chokes got hold of me again, and I had to stop.

Its insidious reach enters into medical offices and chokes off the free-speech rights of the people trying to work there.

If the vapour gets into his lungs, it chokes as well as nauseates.