choke off
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choke off (third-person singular simple present chokes off, present participle choking off, simple past and past participle choked off)
- (idiomatic, transitive) To get rid of, cause to come to an end.
- To stop a person in the execution of a purpose.
- to choke off a speaker by uproar
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
- "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."