choke up
Verb

choke up

  1. (intransitive) To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of embarrassment, fear etc.
    Hearing that song always makes me choke up.
  2. (transitive, sometimes, figurative) To block up; to cause something to be blocked.
  3. (baseball, intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.



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