chocking

verb

Definition of chockingnext
present participle of chock
as in braking

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  1. braking
  2. halting
  3. arresting
  4. dismantling
Verb
  • And there's an 80-lux LED headlight plus braking tail-light.
    Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Stellantis is recalling more than 315,000 of its pickup trucks due to a potentially deadly safety issue with the braking system, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of braking
Verb
  • The controversy has also strained South Korea's political system, halting high-level diplomacy, rattling financial markets, and spotlighting weaknesses in its governance structure.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The controversy has also strained South Korea's political system, halting high-level diplomacy, rattling financial markets, and spotlighting weaknesses in its governance structure.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of halting
Verb
  • As Andrew Lloyd Webber’s go-to orchestrator during some of the composer’s most creative years, Cullen has translated many of the composer’s most arresting melodies into lush, full-bodied and evocative orchestral music.
    Darryn King, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • By then, Texas police were beginning to surpass federal authorities in arresting and prosecuting people for human smuggling.
    Alejandro Serrano, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of arresting
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  • Complete decommissioning can include felling or dismantling the turbines, partially or wholly removing the turbine foundations and underground cables, removing the ground-level facilities, and restoring the land to a usable state.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Hobbs sent about 40 National Guard members to Nogales to assist CBP with traffic direction at secondary search lanes, dismantling vehicles with contraband at the Mariposa border crossing, and supporting rail operations at the Dennis DeConcini crossing a few miles east.
    Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of dismantling
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