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choked up
adjective as in tongue-tied
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But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me.
“My brother was a good man,” he said, pausing as he choked up along with much of the mostly middle-aged and older audience.
At a rally for longshot Senate candidate on the bayou, Sarah Palin got choked up on Thursday.
And I just freeze-framed on the moment and got so choked up and started to cry.
There is just the sound of cameras clicking as Windsor pauses and looks a bit choked up.
There was the usual massacre, but this time the trees were cut down and the wells choked up.
Many of them had no water-supply and very little air; some had no sewers, and where sewers existed they were generally choked up.
We came to the end and, as I stood, all choked up, she took my hand and laid it against her heart—a moment.
Eight or nine hundred years ago these valleys were choked up with forests.
I found a few species of the unio, in a partially choked up branch of the Konamek.
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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to choke up, such as: become speechless, break down, cry, and weep.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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