Clues for the word "CHOKE"
We've had 48 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 61 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on October 13, 2025.
Definition of choke
- v. t. - To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
- v. t. - To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
- v. t. - To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
- v. t. - To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
- v. t. - To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- v. i. - To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
- v. i. - To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
- n. - A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
- n. - The tied end of a cartridge.
- n. - A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
Referring Clues
- Strangle
- Auto airflow regulator
- Lose badly
- Old auto control
- Carburetor regulating device
- Lose due to nervousness
- Require the Heimlich maneuver
- Clog
- Stifle
- Fail in the clutch
- Obstruct
- Blow it in the last seconds, e.g.
- Fail because of nerves
- Be in need of the Heimlich maneuver
- Collapse under pressure
- Collapse in the clutch
- Antiquated auto control
- Antiquated auto control
- Carburetor valve
- Throttle
- Misplay the big play, say
- Fail to make the big play
- Fail under pressure, in slang
- Not come through in the clutch
- Congest
- Fail under pressure
- Be lousy in the clutch
- Hold (back), as tears
- Asphyxiate
- Stage fright
- Senses Fail "___ on This"
- Stage fright result
- Have breathing obstructed - carburettor valve
- 13 across to fail approaching finishing line
- Illegal wrestling hold
- Agree to cutting revolutionary engine component
- Prevent from getting air
- Prevent from breathing
- Fail in a crisis
- ___Cherry , or Whipper Billy hold
- Stop the breathing of
- Get emotional, with "up"
- Crack under pressure
- Lose with a triple bogey, maybe
- Epic mess-up at a critical moment
- Fail in a clutch situation
- Blow it at a critical moment
- Blow it under pressure
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - October 13, 2025
- LA Times - May 04, 2025
- USA Today - September 12, 2024
- USA Today - May 05, 2023
- LA Times - March 26, 2023
- New York Times - November 24, 2021
- Wall Street Journal - October 07, 2017
- USA Today - August 14, 2017
- Mirror Quick - July 03, 2017
- LA Times - June 03, 2017
- Washington Post Classic - April 23, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - January 27, 2017
- Universal - October 11, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 01, 2016
- Guardian Speedy - June 05, 2016
- Guardian Speedy - February 07, 2016
- LA Times - October 29, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 15, 2013
- Guardian Quick - March 17, 2013
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 17, 2012
- Netword - October 26, 2012
- Washington Post - October 17, 2012
- Universal - September 25, 2012
- Washington Post - August 11, 2012
- Washington Post - July 27, 2012
- Guardian Quiptic - May 14, 2012
- Family Time - April 23, 2012
- Universal - January 10, 2012
- USA Today - January 09, 2012
- Rock n Roll Crossword - December 11, 2011
- And in 31 more crossword puzzles...