| backstroke | (verb) swim on one's back | - |
|---|
| breaststroke | (verb) swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg | - |
|---|
| choke | (verb) breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion | - |
|---|
| (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 | - |
| coke | (verb) become coke | - |
|---|
| convoke | (verb) call together | Synonyms: convene |
|---|
| decoke | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize |
|---|
| evoke | (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: paint a picture, suggest |
|---|
| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, kick up, provoke |
| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, extract |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| invoke | (verb) cite as an authority; resort to | Synonyms: appeal |
|---|
| (verb) request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection | Synonyms: appeal |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| joke | (verb) act in a funny or teasing way | Synonyms: jest |
|---|
| (verb) tell a joke; speak humorously | Synonyms: jest |
| poke | (verb) make a hole by poking | - |
|---|
| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, prod, stab |
| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: pound, thump |
| (verb) stir by poking | - |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, nose, pry |
| provoke | (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: stimulate |
|---|
| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, evoke, kick up |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, raise |
| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague |
| revoke | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, vacate |
|---|
| (verb) fail to follow suit when able and required to do so | - |
| smoke | (verb) inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes | - |
|---|
| (verb) emit a cloud of fine particles | Synonyms: fume |
| stoke | (verb) stir up or tend; of a fire | - |
|---|
| stroke | (verb) treat gingerly or carefully | - |
|---|
| (verb) strike a ball with a smooth blow | - |
| (verb) row at a particular rate | - |
| (verb) touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions | - |
| unyoke | (verb) remove the yoke from | - |
|---|
| yoke | (verb) put a yoke on or join with a yoke | - |
|---|
| (verb) link with or as with a yoke | Synonyms: link |
| (verb) become joined or linked together | - |