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CHOKES

6 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

CHOKES is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

CHOKES root CHOKE-s

Word family

CHOKE 2 CHOKING 5 CHOKED-d 3 CHOCK 2

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CHOKINGLY 11
verb
  1. intransitiveTo be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
    • Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish.
  2. transitiveTo prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
    • The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.
  3. transitiveTo obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
    • to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud
  4. transitiveTo hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
  5. colloquialintransitiveTo perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
    • He has a lot of talent, but he tends to choke under pressure.
  6. transitiveTo move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
  7. transitiveTo hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
  8. intransitiveTo be checked or stopped, as if by choking
  9. transitiveTo check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
  10. intransitiveTo have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
  11. transitiveTo give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
  12. transitiveTo say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
  13. transitiveTo use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
  14. intransitiveTo reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
  15. To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
noun
  1. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
  2. In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
  3. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
  4. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
  5. A choking coil.
  6. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
  7. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.