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as in throttled
to keep (someone) from breathing by exerting pressure on the windpipe
let go of my throat—you're choking me!
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as in drowned
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 blocked
to prevent passage through by filling with something
overgrown bushes choked the narrow alleyway between the buildings
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Recent Examples of choked
Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
From long before dawn until well past dark, similar rafts choked the river, packed with as many as 20 migrants per raft.
—Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 29 Oct. 2025
The figure of Achilles, a warrior who singlehandedly choked a river with dead enemies before taking on the river god himself, provided a model for Alexander the Great and persists in contemporary popular entertainment, political speech, and military culture in celebrations of shock and awe.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
On Tuesday, a vehicle breakdown on the westbound upper deck choked the morning commute into Marin.
—Adrian Rodriguez, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Typically, our workstation tests include Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve, but the M5 choked on both, throwing errors instead of completing either test.
—PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
Florida trail attack suspect escorted to sheriff's cruiser In addition to being choked unconscious, a police affidavit identified injuries to both of her eyes and her nose.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
In the quiet of the Sabbath morning when all the neighborhood was wrapped in slumber, some dastardly degenerate crept into the room, choked her to death, assaulted her criminally and left her bruised and bleeding body lying on the bed.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Just moments before, Laurel had fed Scotty’s tie into the power shredder, which choked him to death.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
During the previous school year, the boy strangled and choked a teacher and pulled up a female classmate’s dress and touched her inappropriately on the school playground, the lawsuit claims.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
From long before dawn until well past dark, similar rafts choked the river, packed with as many as 20 migrants per raft.
—Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 29 Oct. 2025
The figure of Achilles, a warrior who singlehandedly choked a river with dead enemies before taking on the river god himself, provided a model for Alexander the Great and persists in contemporary popular entertainment, political speech, and military culture in celebrations of shock and awe.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
On Tuesday, a vehicle breakdown on the westbound upper deck choked the morning commute into Marin.
—Adrian Rodriguez, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Typically, our workstation tests include Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve, but the M5 choked on both, throwing errors instead of completing either test.
—PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
Florida trail attack suspect escorted to sheriff's cruiser In addition to being choked unconscious, a police affidavit identified injuries to both of her eyes and her nose.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
In the quiet of the Sabbath morning when all the neighborhood was wrapped in slumber, some dastardly degenerate crept into the room, choked her to death, assaulted her criminally and left her bruised and bleeding body lying on the bed.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Just moments before, Laurel had fed Scotty’s tie into the power shredder, which choked him to death.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for choked
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During the previous school year, the boy strangled and choked a teacher and pulled up a female classmate’s dress and touched her inappropriately on the school playground, the lawsuit claims.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Their conversation eventually turned violent, leading Packer to call the police after Sweeney had strangled Dunne to the point of unconsciousness.—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Katy Puig vomited a gush of seawater as a boater hoisted her unconscious body out of the water, fighting the current to get her to a yacht that had come to the rescue before first responders arrived in a flotilla.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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This agitprop is vomited out 24/7 by Democrat media apparatchiks who were also unerringly described by Orwell in his novel 1984.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
11 Oct. 2025
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Authorities said Winstead's 3-month old baby drowned in a motel bathtub in Louisville on New Year's Day.—
Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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When the bodies of the drowned are retrieved, they’re sent to Alexandroupoli to be identified.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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China also remains blocked from accessing the highest-end US chips, a key weapon in the high-stakes AI race playing out between the two countries.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Thai restaurant received a yellow placard after inspectors discovered the handwashing sink was blocked with a funnel and dish soap.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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Rookie first-round draft pick Nique Clifford has been upgraded to questionable after missing the past four games with a strained right hamstring.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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Father Mother Sister Brother tells the story of estranged siblings who reunite after years apart and are forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
31 Oct. 2025
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By Michael-Shawn Dugar, David Aldridge and Alex Valdes Sam Darnold threw four touchdown passes and Jaxon Smith-Njigba topped 100 yards receiving for the sixth time this season as the Seattle Seahawks throttled the Washington Commanders 38-14 on Sunday night.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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Argentine bonds were among the best performers in emerging markets last year but had been throttled by volatility amid the Buenos Aires results and US support package.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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As the Netflix series often attempted to bring light to the real mistreatment faced by incarcerated people, Poussey’s death at the hands of a police officer who suffocated her was intended to shed light on the real police brutality Black inmates in particular face.—
Catherine Mhloyi,
Them.,
29 Oct. 2025
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Police arrived minutes later and the siblings soon learned that their younger brother Joey, 9, had been suffocated with a plastic bag and their 11-year-old sister Josephine had been hanged from a rafter in the basement.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Yet this claim conceals the fact that registration is swift for compliant unions but obstructed for independent ones.—
Sourcing Journal,
Sourcing Journal,
15 Oct. 2025
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What To Know DHS issued a statement claiming that Retes became violent, refused to comply with officers and obstructed their path, leading to his arrest for assault.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Choked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choked. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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