choke off

verb

choked off; choking off; chokes off

transitive verb

: to bring to a stop or to an end as if by choking

Examples of choke off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court since 2004 had choked off such lawsuits in cases involving foreign parties, which often have little link to the U.S., Brunk said. —Greg McKenna, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024

That a short-term judgment about what the market will bear can choke off a literary legacy and, to some extent, impoverish a culture. —Mark Athitakis, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024

While these filings are not usually very exciting, this one is at the center of what Nic Carter refers to as Operation Choke Point 2.0, the federal government’s effort to choke off the cryptocurrency industry from traditional financial services. —Norbert Michel, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024

Iran is a major producer of oil, and a worry is that a broadening of the fighting could not only choke off Iran’s flows to China but also affect neighboring countries that are integral to the flow of crude. —Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1818, in the meaning defined above