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Choke off   /tʃoʊk ɔf/   Listen
verb
Choke  v. t.  (past & past part. choked; pres. part. choking)  
1.
To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. "With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder."
2.
To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
3.
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. "Oats and darnel choke the rising corn."
4.
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. "I was choked at this word."
5.
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.






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"Choke off" Quotes from Famous Books



... more. "You don't want folks to be gabbin' about yours truly up on the hill yonder?" He jerked his thumb over his shoulder in the direction where Andrew Johnstone's house appeared far up the slope. "Well, I guess I'll have to choke off a few. Gedap thar, whatter ye doin'!" He gave old Bella a lash with the whip which she noticed merely by a switch of her tail. His shoulders sank to their accustomed limpness and he took no notice of Duncan's thanks as he drove off. He was ...
— Duncan Polite - The Watchman of Glenoro • Marian Keith

... muttered plaintively, as he replaced his shoe, "that the lives us gamblers leads generally tends to choke off our wind around the fifty-mark at the latest. I'm forty-five an' here in the mere shank o' old age, after runnin' my own game for twenty years, I got to go to work for ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne



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