Lexic.us

Definition of Choke down

1. Verb. Suppress. "He choked down his rage"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Choke Down

Literary usage of Choke down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Christ and His Salvation: In Sermons Variously Related Thereto by Horace Bushnell (1869)
"Can you turn off the bad conclusion, by contriving a sort of forgiveness that is lower, such barely as can manage to choke down a grudge, or not choke down ..."

2. Âryan Word-building by George Otis Holbrooke (1910)
"... pinch the waist; <s<pf¡% wasp; <J/ÎY<«I> to [choke down], be silent; ... choke down; be silent (sileo) ; Eng. swinging = choking ; swig ; AS ..."

3. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat: A Manual for Students and Practitioners by William Lincoln Ballenger, Howard Charles Ballenger, Adolphus George Wippern (1917)
"These after a time contract and cut off the blood supply and choke down the glandular structure of the membrane. Thus atrophy is established and functional ..."

4. Machinery and Supplies for Saw Mills, Phosphate Mines, Fertilizer Factories by Cameron & Barkley Company (1911)
"It is constructed with side openings and one end removable, to facilitate cleaning out in ease of choke down. The l>earings are of ample size, ..."

5. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"... and with a great heave he pulled up after him a boy about my own size, who caught his breath from time to time as though to choke down a sob. ..."

6. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"During a moment's pause, in which I saw her choke down a rising Hood of emotion, she gazed earnestly at the card, and then, clasping my hand more firmly ..."

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