choke off

English

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Verb

choke off (third-person singular simple present chokes off, present participle choking off, simple past and past participle choked off)

(idiomatic, transitive) To get rid of, cause to come to an end.
To stop a person in the execution of a purpose.
to choke off a speaker by uproar
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  "It was a discreditable business. There were one or two folk who were inclined to take him seriously, but he soon choked them off." "How?" "Well, by his insufferable rudeness and impossible behavior."

Translations

to cause to come to an end

Finnish: lopettaa (fi)

to stop a person in the execution of a purpose

Finnish: hiljentää (fi), vaientaa (fi); pysäyttää (fi)

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