Read full poem →Pin down some stranger till the thing is read.
When weeds choke up within, then look to me
To show the world the manners of a weed.
Dictionary Entry
To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of embarrassment, fear etc.
In a Sentence
“Hearing that song always makes me choke up.”
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Poetry examples for “choke up”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.