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choked
adjective as in anxious
Strongest matches
adjective as in congested
adjective as in insecure
adjective as in neurotic
adjective as in smothered
Strong matches
- asphyxiated
- suffocated
Weak match
adjective as in strained
adjective as in tense
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
He started drinking heavily, and choked her, threatened her with a knife, and even tried pushing her out of a moving car.
She had been choked unconscious and very likely would have died had a passerby not scared away her attacker.
But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me.
In the morning I stumbled down the staircase and choked down a chunky breakfast smoothie.
I play strong characters, never degraded, never hit, never choked out, nothing like that.
There was the usual massacre, but this time the trees were cut down and the wells choked up.
On either side the carnage had been terrible, and the pathways of the village were literally choked with the dead.
Malcolm choked back the hard words that rose to his lips, and sought such local information as the ryot could give him.
He was shot by a man of the 32d, and his body formed the lowermost layer of a causeway of corpses that soon choked the ditch.
It is hopeless to number the slain that strewed the field of battle, choked the Bannock, or floated down the Forth.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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