"choke off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-choke off.ogg [Australia] Forms: chokes off [present, singular, third-person], choking off [participle, present], choked off [participle, past], choked off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} choke off (third-person singular simple present chokes off, present participle choking off, simple past and past participle choked off)
  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To get rid of, cause to come to an end. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (to cause to come to an end): lopettaa (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-choke_off-en-verb-1iViBPaY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (off) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 85 15 Disambiguation of 'to cause to come to an end': 97 3
  2. To stop a person in the execution of a purpose. Translations (to stop a person in the execution of a purpose): hiljentää (Finnish), vaientaa (Finnish), pysäyttää (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-choke_off-en-verb-~nXlPbKi Disambiguation of 'to stop a person in the execution of a purpose': 3 97

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for choke off meaning in English (2.1kB)

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