choke down

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   suppress

   “He choked down his rage”

   Synonymschoke offchoke back

   Broadersuppress

Questions about choke down

What does choke down mean?

choke down means "suppress".

What is another word for choke down?

Close synonyms include choke off, choke back. 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 down a common word?

choke down 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.