choked (back)

past tense of choke (back)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for choked (back)
Verb
  • Young stifled the 2021 Finals MVP throughout.
    Ben Pickman, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The real innovation being stifled today is the innovation that’ll never bloom, suffocated by vertical integration and acquisitions disguised as partnerships.
    Asad Ramzanali, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Onondagas support plans announced by the mayor of Syracuse in 2020 to remove the statue of Columbus, an Italian explorer who helped the Spanish establish a colonial foothold in the Caribbean and later suppressed revolts by Indigenous people.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The defense also argued that evidence recovered from the backpack Mangione was carrying when he was arrested at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s should be suppressed.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • William had moreover swallowed an early, heady dose of Anglophilia.
    Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Passing gas, also known as flatulence, is a natural part of digestion that happens when swallowed air or gases produced by gut bacteria move through your intestines and out of your body.
    Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But the unit is being held back by what was supposed to be its strength — the running game.
    Chad Graff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The streams from his time in San Francisco, Oakland, and the nation’s capital did indeed feature some of the more frenzied throngs of people screaming his name and reaching out to touch him, held back only by a cadre of burly bodyguards.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2025
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“Choked (back).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choked%20%28back%29. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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