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单词 to choke up
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to choke up
to choke up
1. transitive and intransitive. To suffocate completely (see branch I). Obsolete.
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the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die of suffocation or choking
strangle1338
smore1488
smoor1508
smotherc1528
to choke up1555
stifle1594
throttle1655
suffocate1702
quackle1806
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (transitive)] > choke
stranglea1300
chokec1380
worrya1400
stiflec1400
to stop the breath (more rarely the wind) ofc1400
scomfishc1480
to choke up1555
grane1613
suffocatea1616
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > deprive of voice [verb (transitive)] > put to silence > by choking
to choke up1555
choke1590
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. vi. 92 Winding the tayle of an oxe aboute their throte [they] choke vp and die.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Gg3v Her words were choakt vp.
1752 E. Young Brothers iii. i The thought quite choaks me up.
2. transitive. To enclose so as to smother. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > enclose or confine [verb (transitive)] > completely or out of sight
to close up1530
to choke up1539
1539 Bible (Great) Matt. xiii. 22 The care of this worlde, and the dissaytfulnes of riches, choke vp the worde.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iv. 45 Her fairest flowers choakt vp. View more context for this quotation
1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 34 Loading and choaking him up with Blankets.
3. To block up a channel. (The usual sense.)
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up > block the way or a passage
forsetc900
withseta1300
stop13..
speara1325
withsperre1330
to stop one's way1338
shut1362
forbara1375
beseta1400
stopc1400
precludea1513
interclude1526
to shut up1526
forestall1528
fence1535
hedge1535
quar1542
foreclose1548
forestop1566
to flounder up1576
obstruct1578
bar1590
retrench1590
to shut the door in (also upon) (a person's) face1596
barricade1606
barricado1611
thwartc1630
blocka1644
overthwart1654
rebarricado1655
to choke up1673
blockade1696
embarrass1735
snow1816
roadblock1950
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 378 The Haven is almost choaked up.
1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 306 The Western mouths of the Lena were so choaked up with ice.
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 169 To open the course of a little river..that had been chocked up with sand.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 408 Multitudes of fugitives were choking up the bridges.
4. To fill chock-full.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > to capacity
gorge?a1513
pack1567
choke1712
to choke up1871
to pack out1914
1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. (1877) I. 85 Take the words ‘Absolute’ and ‘Infinite’ to mean that He to whom they are applicable chokes up the universe, mental and physical.
5. intransitive. To refrain from speaking, to hold one's tongue. U.S. colloquial.
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1907 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 ix. 105 ‘Why, about eight years ago I had business—’ ‘Choke up,’ interposed Red.
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