chocked

verb

Definition of chockednext
past tense of chock
as in jammed

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  1. jammed
  2. arrested
  3. halted
  4. cut off
  5. dismantled
Verb
  • Other recalls have involved faulty wipers, loose trim, and jammed accelerator pedals.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Crowds jammed the dollar store for snacks and chips.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of jammed
Verb
  • Smith was arrested in May 2020 and was being held on $1 million bail.
    City News Service, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
  • According to police, officers responded to the Safeway in the 3100 block of Balfour Road and immediately arrested two of the juveniles.
    Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of arrested
Verb
  • Qatar has halted its mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas, citing a lack of willingness from both sides to engage constructively, according to a diplomatic source briefed on the matter.
    Keir Simmons, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • Though the sitdown with the media was to preview Tuesday's Champions League showdown against Borussia Dortmund, Courtois was asked about lamentable scenes last month which caused the Madrid derby to be halted before play resumed after a long pause.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of halted
Verb
  • Earlier this week, Bangladesh's High Court ordered a high-level probe into the conglomerate’s power supply deal to the country—as the Adani group threatened to cut off power supply to the country over $850 million in unpaid dues.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Her body was eventually tossed off a cliff but the teens returned later and mutilated her corpse, cutting the body at least 180 times, removing a portion of a lung and cutting off her fingers, court records show.
    Marty Roney, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of cut off
Verb
  • Over the next thirty years, Nasrallah and his acolytes systemically dismantled and subsumed the sovereign Lebanese government, with even no President since 2022, and wrought havoc on the Lebanese people with little support from the population.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Most of Syria’s tank units and artillery batteries have disbanded, and much of the country’s massive arsenal of chemical weapons, which Damascus began stockpiling in the 1970s to deter Israel, has been dismantled under international supervision.
    Amos Harel, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
Definition of dismantled
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