choke off (English, verb)
expansion: choke off (third-person singular simple present chokes off, present participle choking off, simple past and past participle choked off)
Senses:
glosses: To get rid of; to cause to come to an end.
tags: idiomatic
transitive
glosses: To stop (someone or something) in the execution of a purpose or task; to stop (someone) from doing something.
tags: idiomatic
transitive
glosses: To choke up; to choke on words.
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
transitive
glosses: To cause (someone) to lose interest or drift off from a conversation.
tags: idiomatic
transitive
Forms:
form: chokes off
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: choking off
tags: participle
present
form: choked off
tags: participle
past
form: choked off
tags: past