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ALL meanings of choke up

choke up
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  • verb choke up to block (a drain, pipe, etc) completely 3
  • verb choke up to overcome (a person) with emotion, esp without due cause 3
  • noun choke up to block up; clog 3
  • noun choke up to fill too full 3
  • noun choke up choke (sense 6) 3
  • noun choke up to be unable to speak, act efficiently, etc., as because of fear, strong emotion, tension, etc. 3
  • verb with object choke up to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle. 1
  • verb with object choke up to stop by or as if by strangling or stifling: The sudden wind choked his words. 1
  • verb with object choke up to stop by filling; obstruct; clog: Grease choked the drain. 1
  • verb with object choke up to suppress (a feeling, emotion, etc.) (often followed by back or down): I managed to choke back my tears. 1
  • verb with object choke up to fill chock-full: The storeroom was choked with furniture. 1
  • verb with object choke up to seize (a log, felled tree, etc.) with a chain, cable, or the like, so as to facilitate removal. 1
  • verb with object choke up to enrich the fuel mixture of (an internal-combustion engine) by diminishing the air supply to the carburetor. 1
  • verb with object choke up Sports. to grip (a bat, racket, or the like) farther than usual from the end of the handle; shorten one's grip on (often followed by up). 1
  • verb without object choke up to suffer from or as from strangling or suffocating: He choked on a piece of food. 1
  • verb without object choke up to become obstructed, clogged, or otherwise stopped: The words choked in her throat. 1
  • noun choke up the act or sound of choking. 1
  • noun choke up a mechanism by which the air supply to the carburetor of an internal-combustion engine can be diminished or stopped. 1
  • noun choke up Machinery. any mechanism that, by blocking a passage, regulates the flow of air, gas, etc. 1
  • noun choke up Electricity. choke coil. 1
  • noun choke up a narrowed part, as in a chokebore. 1
  • noun choke up the bristly upper portion of the receptacle of the artichoke. 1
  • intransitivephrasal verb choke up be emotional, unable to speak 1
  • intransitivephrasal verb choke up be emotional, unable to speak 1
  • verbal expression choke up baseball bat: hold higher up 1
  • verbal expression choke up baseball bat: hold higher up 1
  • verb choke up (Intransitive Verb) To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of embarrassment, fear etc. 0
  • verb choke up (Transitive Verb) To block up, to cause something to be blocked. 0
  • verb choke up (Transitive Verb) To block, to block up (figuratively). 0
  • verb choke up (Intransitive Verb) (baseball) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal. 0
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