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choked up

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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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