| anchor | (verb) secure a vessel with an anchor | Synonyms: cast anchor, drop anchor |
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| (verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: ground |
| chock | (verb) support on chocks | - |
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| (verb) secure with chocks | - |
| choir | (verb) sing in a choir | Synonyms: chorus |
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| choke | (verb) breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion | - |
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| (verb) cause to retch or choke | Synonyms: gag |
| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: gag, strangle, suffocate |
| (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: strangle |
| (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: throttle |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: fret, gag |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up, foul |
| (verb) wring the neck of | Synonyms: scrag |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate |
| (verb) check or slow down the action or effect of | - |
| (verb) fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation | - |
| chomp | (verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: champ |
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| chondrify | (verb) turn into cartilage | - |
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| choose | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: pick out, select, take |
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| (verb) see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way | - |
| (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: opt, prefer |
| chop | (verb) hit sharply | - |
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| (verb) cut with a hacking tool | Synonyms: hack |
| (verb) cut into pieces with repeated blows | Synonyms: chop up |
| (verb) strike sharply, as in some sports | - |
| (verb) form or shape by chopping | - |
| (verb) move suddenly | - |
| chord | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: harmonise, harmonize |
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| (verb) play chords on (a stringed instrument) | - |
| choreograph | (verb) plan and oversee the development and details of | - |
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| (verb) compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music | - |
| chortle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chuckle, laugh softly |
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| chorus | (verb) utter in unison | - |
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| (verb) sing in a choir | Synonyms: choir |
| chouse | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, jockey, screw, shaft |
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| dichotomise | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomize |
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| dichotomize | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomise |
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| echo | (verb) to say again or imitate | Synonyms: repeat |
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| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: resound, reverberate, ring |
| (verb) bring to mind | Synonyms: recall |
| psychoanalyse | (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, psychoanalyze |
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| psychoanalyze | (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, psychoanalyse |
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| reecho | (verb) repeat back like an echo | - |
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| (verb) repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back | - |
| (verb) echo repeatedly, echo again and again | - |
| school | (verb) swim in or form a large group of fish | - |
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| (verb) educate in or as if in a school | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train |