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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
choak .
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Examples
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Ai is waytin foar mai filly minyun adn arty choaks.
Um … this wha happen when - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Iffin lcb nawt wanted yur artee choaks, ai wheel taykim!
Floyd was all set for - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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While watching Sen McCain many times he speaks of speading and choaks…what is this about, is he telling the truth?
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Learning, or Sense, are we to expect from young Gentlemen, in whom a fondness for Cards, &c. outgrows and choaks the Desire of Knowledge?
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The roof, which once covered the whole building, has fallen down, and choaks up the interior in such a way as to render it difficult to determine whether the edifice has been a palace, or destined for public amusements.
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The roof, which once covered the whole building, has fallen down, and choaks up the interior in such a way as to render it difficult to determine whether the edifice has been a palace, or destined for public amusements.
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_ Sir, (_gulping_) I can't swallow that! it choaks me (_falling on his knees_); forgive me, dear master that _was_; your threats I could withstand, your violence I could bear, but your kindness and good opinion there is no resisting; promise you wont betray me.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 Samuel James Arnold 1813
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I care less than you will believe about its success, but I can't survive a single _misprint_; it _choaks_ me to see words misused by the Printers.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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The roof, which once covered the whole building, has fallen down, and choaks up the interior in such a way as to render it difficult to determine whether the edifice has been
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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Love, on the contrary, sprouts usually up in the richest and noblest minds; but there, unless nicely watched, pruned, and cultivated, and carefully kept clear of those vicious weeds which are too apt to surround it, it branches forth into wildness and disorder, produces nothing desirable, but choaks up and kills whatever is good and noble in the mind where it so abounds.
Amelia — Complete Henry Fielding 1730
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