choke up

1. (intransitive)To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion.

   Hearing that song always makes me choke up.

2. (transitive)To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion.

   It chokes me up to think about how he died.

3. (imperative, intransitive, often)To cease talking.

4. (figuratively, sometimes, transitive)To block up; to cause something to be blocked.

5. (intransitive)To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.

1. Tom got all choked up about it.

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2. I'm getting choked up.

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3. He was all choked up about it.

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4. Tom was all choked up about it.

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5. She can't talk about her mother without choking up.

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irregular

• choke upTo (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion.
• choke offTo get rid of; to cause to come to an end.
• choke outTo say (something) with difficulty, while or as if choking.
• choke onTo refuse to accept (something).
• choke downTo swallow with difficulty.
• choke backTo hold back or suppress (an emotion, expression of emotion, or utterance), with difficulty.