"choke back" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chokes back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choking back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choked back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choked back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "choke back (third-person singular simple present chokes back, present participle choking back, simple past and past participle choked back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When she slapped me, I tried hard to choke back my tears.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "He had a cutting retort on the tip of his tongue, but he choked it back.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1884, R. M. Ballantyne, chapter 6, in Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished, London: James Nisbet, page 71",
          "text": "[…] when Di looked at his pinched and pale face in this placid condition, the tears would overflow their natural boundary, and sobs would rise up in her pretty throat, but she choked them back for fear of disturbing her boy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 10, in Anne of Avonlea",
          "text": "Anne choked back a mad desire to laugh with the conviction that it would be fatal, and then earnestly set about saving Marilla’s reputation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Richard Adams, chapter 5, in Watership Down, London: Macmillan",
          "text": "Choking back his own fear of the desolate, grassless woodland […], he began.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold back or suppress (an emotion, expression of emotion, or utterance), with difficulty."
      ],
      "id": "en-choke_back-en-verb-94eP66-j",
      "links": [
        [
          "hold back",
          "hold back"
        ],
        [
          "suppress",
          "suppress"
        ],
        [
          "emotion",
          "emotion"
        ],
        [
          "expression",
          "expression"
        ],
        [
          "utterance",
          "utterance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To hold back or suppress (an emotion, expression of emotion, or utterance), with difficulty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "choke back"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chokes back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choking back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choked back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choked back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "choke back (third-person singular simple present chokes back, present participle choking back, simple past and past participle choked back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When she slapped me, I tried hard to choke back my tears.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "He had a cutting retort on the tip of his tongue, but he choked it back.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1884, R. M. Ballantyne, chapter 6, in Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished, London: James Nisbet, page 71",
          "text": "[…] when Di looked at his pinched and pale face in this placid condition, the tears would overflow their natural boundary, and sobs would rise up in her pretty throat, but she choked them back for fear of disturbing her boy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 10, in Anne of Avonlea",
          "text": "Anne choked back a mad desire to laugh with the conviction that it would be fatal, and then earnestly set about saving Marilla’s reputation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Richard Adams, chapter 5, in Watership Down, London: Macmillan",
          "text": "Choking back his own fear of the desolate, grassless woodland […], he began.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold back or suppress (an emotion, expression of emotion, or utterance), with difficulty."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hold back",
          "hold back"
        ],
        [
          "suppress",
          "suppress"
        ],
        [
          "emotion",
          "emotion"
        ],
        [
          "expression",
          "expression"
        ],
        [
          "utterance",
          "utterance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To hold back or suppress (an emotion, expression of emotion, or utterance), with difficulty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "choke back"
}