"choke up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chokes up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choking up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choked up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choked up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "choke up (third-person singular simple present chokes up, present participle choking up, simple past and past participle choked up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "35 36 8 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System",
          "text": "The point overlooking the sea has beautiful scenery. It's over that away. Such a beautiful place gets me all choked up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "Hearing that song always makes me choke up."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion."
      ],
      "id": "en-choke_up-en-verb-r24PYNIz",
      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "35 36 8 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 39 18 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It chokes me up to think about how he died."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion."
      ],
      "id": "en-choke_up-en-verb--x74UjA8",
      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, “Chicago's Awful Theater Horror”, in Memorial Publishing Co., page 42",
          "text": "The bodies choked up the entrance, barring the egress of those behind.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To block up; to cause something to be blocked."
      ],
      "id": "en-choke_up-en-verb-t033aDYr",
      "links": [
        [
          "block up",
          "block up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, sometimes figurative) To block up; to cause something to be blocked."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "sometimes",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Baseball",
          "orig": "en:Baseball",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 36 8 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal."
      ],
      "id": "en-choke_up-en-verb-wiMmGKAB",
      "links": [
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "hold",
          "hold"
        ],
        [
          "bat",
          "bat"
        ],
        [
          "high",
          "high"
        ],
        [
          "far",
          "far"
        ],
        [
          "knob",
          "knob"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(baseball, intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "choke up"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chokes up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choking up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choked up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choked up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "choke up (third-person singular simple present chokes up, present participle choking up, simple past and past participle choked up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System",
          "text": "The point overlooking the sea has beautiful scenery. It's over that away. Such a beautiful place gets me all choked up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "Hearing that song always makes me choke up."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It chokes me up to think about how he died."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, “Chicago's Awful Theater Horror”, in Memorial Publishing Co., page 42",
          "text": "The bodies choked up the entrance, barring the egress of those behind.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To block up; to cause something to be blocked."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "block up",
          "block up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, sometimes figurative) To block up; to cause something to be blocked."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "sometimes",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "en:Baseball"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "hold",
          "hold"
        ],
        [
          "bat",
          "bat"
        ],
        [
          "high",
          "high"
        ],
        [
          "far",
          "far"
        ],
        [
          "knob",
          "knob"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(baseball, intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "choke up"
}