Chokes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CHOKES in dictionary:

VERB:
• CHOKE, to impede the breathing of
• (of a person or animal) have severe difficulty in breathing because of a constricted or obstructed throat or a lack of air
• cause (a person or animal) to choke
• swallow something with difficulty
• prevent (a plant) from growing by depriving it of light, air, or nourishment
• prevent or inhibit the occurrence or development of
• (in sports) fail to perform at a crucial point of a game or contest as a result of nervousness
• fill (a space) so as to make movement difficult or impossible
• make (someone) speechless with a strong feeling or emotion
• cause (someone) to feel tearful or extremely upset
• suppress a strong emotion or the expression of such an emotion
• enrich the fuel mixture in (a petrol engine) by reducing the intake of air
NOUN:
• a valve in the carburettor of a petrol engine that is used to reduce the amount of air in the fuel mixture when the engine is started
• a knob which controls the choke in a carburettor
• a narrowed part of a shotgun bore near the muzzle, serving to restrict the spread of the shot
• an inductance coil used to smooth the variations of an alternating current or to alter its phase.
• an act or the sound of a person or animal having difficulty in breathing
• the inedible mass of silky fibres at the centre of a globe artichoke.

Words related to CHOKES

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How to use CHOKES in a sentence

• One other horror must I record, which chokes me even yet to think of.
• Far from animism being the root of theism, more often it is rather the ivy that grows up about it, hides it and chokes it.
• The dust chokes up the breathing pores of the leaves, interfering with the action of the plant.
• He will snatch at things and tip them over, plunge his fists into the gravy, and fill his mouth with food, stuffing it in with both hands until he chokes.
• I understand why a rabbit screams and struggles until it chokes when it feels the wire.
• The storm beats down upon the caravan, and sometimes chokes both men and camels.
• An evil lot, which heaps years of ill-fortune on the joyous, chokes mirth in mourning, and troubles our destiny.
• Time passes - talons curve and hook - how the mouth chokes with ash.
• Perhaps, too, the lava or melted rock underneath cools and grows hard, and that chokes up the hole lower down.
• Nature reigns at the top of her voice and chokes her realm with the fervor of her maternity.
• Profited by his labors beyond what she ever could have been without him, she strains and chokes with anathemas upon his name and everything that savors of him.
• When in, 3, 4 move up the Truck-quoins, 12 chokes luff of Train-tackle.
• These it mats together in its wiry, sinuous coils, and chokes relentlessly by the acre.
• She chokes and wags her head and wipes her face with her sleeve.
• The dust of his motor chokes the citizen trudging home from work.
• It chokes up the stream, and catches all the other wood that is floating down.
• Rucker speaks her mind about him and Bob chokes and swells up my heart gets warm.
• Below twenty-seven feet it contracts to nineteen inches, so that the turf thrown in completely chokes it.
• I see the girls droop and pine in this dreary parsonage, where the winds nip, and the miasma from the churchyard chokes them.
• These three things, singly or combined, are the explanations, as they are the causes, of half the stagnant Christianity that chokes our churches.

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