choke out
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Language failed. Pause—impotent struggle for further words—then he gave it up, choked out a deep, strong oath, and departed for good."
- "He choked out the confession with the recklessness of final despair."
- "[…] giving way to tears, I choked out the dreadful trouble I was in."
- "I feel so terribly sick, she said to herself as if to some invisible, solicitous doctor, but managed to choke out to the librarian, “I’m sure there is an American poet Dickens.”"
- "We had reached the end of the grass where the bush and trees of the mountain slope had choked it out […]"
- "A grove of oaks, sturdy, spreading wide their branches clad in green-bronze leaves, had thrived to the elimination of spruces, except a few giants that could not be choked out."