choking off

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; to cause to come to an end.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To stop (someone or something) in the execution of a purpose or task; to stop (someone) from doing something.
   • to choke off a speaker by uproar
3. (idiomatic, intransitive, transitive) To choke up; to choke on words.
4. (idiomatic, transitive) To cause (someone) to lose interest or drift off from a conversation.