choked up

Verb

choke up (third-person singular simple present chokes up, present participle choking up, simple past and past participle choked 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.
   • The bodies choked up the entrance, barring the egress of those behind.1904, “Chicago's Awful Theater Horror”, in Memorial Publishing Co., page 42
5. (intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.