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choke up

verb as in be overcome with emotion

verb as in fail under pressure

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Example Sentences

“Thinking about that makes me emotional,” he says and begins to choke up.

Adrien Brody Do choke up, ideally while thanking your mother.

Coffee Jack, shovel in hand, kept the larger stones moving when they threatened to choke up the boxes.

And shall we give a little running water, and turn aside or choke up the streams of knowledge?

At other times, they would choke up, ceasing to breathe until they were black in the face, and we thought they would surely die.

They choke up after a while, and fresh ones appear in another part of the area, thus keeping the whole clear of plants.

When a rock is cleft, the fragments half choke up the waters that gush through them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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