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  • verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of choke

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choke + -eth

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Examples

  • 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 2001

  • 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.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

  • 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 1885

  • 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."

    Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

  • 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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