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