choke back

1. 1.

   suppress

   “He choked down his rage”

   Synonymschoke offchoke down

   Broadersuppress

Questions about choke back

What does choke back mean?

choke back means "suppress".

What is another word for choke back?

Close synonyms include choke off, choke down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is choke back a common word?

choke back is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.