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as in to suffocate
to be or cause to be killed by lack of breathable air
thick, black smoke choked the trapped firefighters
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as in to block
to prevent passage through by filling with something
overgrown bushes choked the narrow alleyway between the buildings
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Recent Examples of choke
The same jury did, however, convict Chambers of battery and false imprisonment for other prior altercations in which prosecutors said Chambers pushed, grabbed and choked Dadkhah.
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City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
The air around the mop sink was choked by 20 flies.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
The Chiefs went 12-5 after that loss to Tampa Bay, choking a second-half lead to the Bengals in the AFC Championship Game.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Luckily, the police department had recently brought in a CPR specialist who taught officers how to save choking children.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
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City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
The air around the mop sink was choked by 20 flies.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
The Chiefs went 12-5 after that loss to Tampa Bay, choking a second-half lead to the Bengals in the AFC Championship Game.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Luckily, the police department had recently brought in a CPR specialist who taught officers how to save choking children.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for choke
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Miner was tied up, beaten, strangled and stabbed.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
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Even the most strident neighborhood defenders agree that California is being strangled by a severe housing crisis.—
Stan Oklobdzija,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
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Daily beatings that left people in wheelchairs, with broken teeth, and vomiting blood.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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Then, early in the morning of February 18, Chernyak began having seizures and vomiting in his bunk bed.—
Isabelle Chapman,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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The heat this year lasted for long, suffocating stretches.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
19 Sep. 2025
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Some seventeen hundred people suffocated, along with more than three thousand livestock.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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But the program ground to a halt when Germany blocked the export of the engines, citing a European Union arms embargo on China introduced after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Kelly says the government is blocked from deporting these children while the case continues.—
Armando Garcia,
ABC News,
18 Sep. 2025
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Finally, fiber providers rarely throttle speeds, giving you more consistent performance than many competing services.—
Roxanne Downer,
USA Today,
15 Sep. 2025
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Head coach DeShaun Foster did not have many answers for why UCLA got throttled 35-10 at home by New Mexico on Friday night.—
Manny Navarro,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Don't tail large vehicles closely - Trucks or buses can kick up a water spray that obstructs visibility.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Yet the longer Israel obstructs the Hezbollah disarmament plan, the less receptive most of Lebanon’s Shias will be to it.—
Bilal Y. Saab,
Time,
18 Sep. 2025
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Barron jammed Dike up, Ward had nowhere to go, and the quarterback ended up taking a sack.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
12 Sep. 2025
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The two defended their actions, including jamming a paper shredder with incriminating documents, as being necessary to secure the release of American hostages being held in Lebanon and to curb Soviet expansionism.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Choke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choke. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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