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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
choke
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Examples
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For the earthquake — it choketh up many wells, it causeth much languishing: but it bringeth also to light inner powers and secrets.
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This loathing choketh me, that we kings ourselves have become false, draped and disguised with the old faded pomp of our ancestors, show – pieces for the stupidest, the craftiest, and whosoever at present trafficketh for power.
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And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision
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And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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P: And food which choketh (the partaker), and a painful doom
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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This loathing choketh me, that we kings ourselves have become false, draped and disguised with the old faded pomp of our ancestors, show-pieces for the stupidest, the craftiest, and whosoever at present trafficketh for power.
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For the earthquake-it choketh up many wells, it causeth much languishing: but it bringeth also to light inner powers and secrets.
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And as if there were a special secret access to knowledge, which choketh up for those who learn anything, so do we believe in the people and in their "wisdom."
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For the earthquake -- it choketh up many wells, it causeth much languishing: but it bringeth also to light inner powers and secrets.
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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