choke off

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

choke off (third-person singular simple present chokes off, present participle choking off, simple past and past participle choked off)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To get rid of; to cause to come to an end.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To stop (someone or something) in the execution of a purpose or task; to stop (someone) from doing something.

   to choke off a speaker by uproar

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "It was a discreditable business. There were one or two folk who were inclined to take him seriously, but he soon choked them off." "How?" "Well, by his insufferable rudeness and impossible behavior."

3. (idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To choke up; to choke on words.
4. (idiomatic, transitive) To cause (someone) to lose interest or drift off from a conversation.

Translations

to cause to come to an end

• Finnish: lopettaa (fi)

to stop a person in the execution of a purpose

• Finnish: hiljentää (fi), vaientaa (fi); pysäyttää (fi)