choke off

present singular third person chokes off · participle present choking off · participle past choked off · past choked off

1. idiomatictransitiveTo get rid of; to cause to come to an end.
2. idiomatictransitiveTo stop (someone or something) in the execution of a purpose or task; to stop (someone) from doing something.

   to choke off a speaker by uproar

   1 more example

   "It was a discreditable business. There were one or two folk who were inclined to take him seriously, but he soon choked them off." "How?" "Well, by his insufferable rudeness and impossible behavior."

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

3. idiomaticintransitivetransitiveTo choke up; to choke on words.
4. idiomatictransitiveTo cause (someone) to lose interest or drift off from a conversation.