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Choke

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Verb group 10

Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Break 84% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Die 84% connected

of Dice

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Die 84% connected

of Dice

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Fail 84% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Fail 84% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

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Manner of action 15

Abort 76% connected

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Asphyxiate 76% connected

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

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Block 76% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Drown 76% connected

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

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Fall 76% connected

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Famish 76% connected

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Lug 76% connected

The ear, or its lobe.

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Predecease 76% connected

To die sooner than.

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Silt 76% connected

Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

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Starve 76% connected

To die; to perish.

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Stifle 76% connected

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Succumb 76% connected

To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

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Suffocate 76% connected

Suffocated; choked.

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Yield 76% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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Broader term 29

Ache 76% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Become 76% connected

of Become

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Block 76% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Breathe 76% connected

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

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Coil 76% connected

To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

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Compact 76% connected

Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

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Compress 76% connected

To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or…

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Constrict 76% connected

To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.

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Contract 76% connected

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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Dampen 76% connected

To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

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Enrich 76% connected

To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.

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Fail 76% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hurt 76% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Impede 76% connected

To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.

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Inhibit 76% connected

To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.

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Jam 76% connected

A kind of frock for children.

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Neglect 76% connected

Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to di…

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Obstruct 76% connected

To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Occlude 76% connected

To shut up; to close.

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Press 76% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Respire 76% connected

To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sicken 76% connected

To make sick; to disease.

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Squeeze 76% connected

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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Stifle 76% connected

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suffer 76% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suppress 76% connected

To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

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Suspire 76% connected

To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Valve 76% connected

A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.

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Derivationally related 12

Asphyxiation 74% connected

The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Asphyxiation 74% connected

The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.

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Choker 74% connected

One who, or that which, chokes.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Choker 74% connected

One who, or that which, chokes.

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Choking 74% connected

of Choke

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Choking 74% connected

of Choke

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Congestion 74% connected

The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.

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Congestion 74% connected

The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.

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Congestive 74% connected

Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.

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Congestive 74% connected

Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.

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Garroter 74% connected

One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.

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Garroter 74% connected

One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.

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Containing whole 1

Circuit 70% connected

The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.

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Synonym 19

Asphyxiate 92% connected

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Clog 92% connected

That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Congest 92% connected

To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Croak 92% connected

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Decease 92% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Die 92% connected

of Dice

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Exit 92% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Expire 92% connected

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Foul 92% connected

A bird.

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Fret 92% connected

See 1st Frith.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gag 92% connected

To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Go 92% connected

Gone.

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Pass 92% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Perish 92% connected

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scrag 92% connected

Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stifle 92% connected

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Strangle 92% connected

To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suffocate 92% connected

Suffocated; choked.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Throttle 92% connected

The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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