choked
- adjective
- /tʃoʊkt/
- The drain was completely choked with leaves and debris, causing water to overflow.
The landscape song of bondage dirge in the river's throat where it churns into the Gulf Wind, in trees choked with vines.
- The landscape song of bondage dirge in the river's throat where it churns into the Gulf Wind, in trees choked with vines.
Examples
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The landscape song of bondage dirge in the river's throat where it churns into the Gulf Wind, in trees choked with vines.
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Here is a beautiful picture of ice choked sinuous rivers in the Arctic.
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When I say something's choked, I mean that it is lacking in in low end.
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Accordingly, the coasts of Sicily became choked with the corpses and broken Timbers of the defeated Navy.
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After the heavy rainfall, the streets became choked with mud and fallen branches.
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The narrow passage was choked with traffic, making it impossible to get through.
Synonyms
Stopped from moving or flowing because something is blocking it
An opening like a drain or pipe that is blocked so nothing can pass through
Blocked so air cannot pass through, often in the nose after a cold
Closed so nothing can pass through, for example a nose or road
Completely blocked so nothing can pass through
Stopped so nothing can pass through, like a pipe or a blood vessel
A place where ice blocks the way so people or vehicles cannot move through
A nose that is blocked so air cannot pass easily
Blocked so air or water cannot pass easily
Slow or difficult to move forward because something is in the way
Antonyms
How Blocked
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Choked comes from the verb choke, which originally meant 'to stop the breath' by blocking the throat. So calling a drain, machine, or road choked gives the image of something so full it is 'blocked' and nothing can pass.