choke up
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[edit]Verb
[edit]choke up (third-person singular simple present chokes up, present participle choking up, simple past and past participle choked up)
- (intransitive) To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion.
- Hearing that song always makes me choke up.
- 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
- The point overlooking the sea has beautiful scenery. It's over that away. Such a beautiful place gets me all choked up.
- (transitive) To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion.
- It chokes me up to think about how he died.
- (intransitive, often imperative) To cease talking.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To block up; to cause something to be blocked.
- 1904, “Chicago's Awful Theater Horror”, in Memorial Publishing Co., page 42:
- The bodies choked up the entrance, barring the egress of those behind.
- (baseball, intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.