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have choked

  • present perfect of choke.

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“I watched him have three seizures. That ICE agent could have choked on his tongue had I not been there.”

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

All my Anaheim friends support Valencia, whose mailers have choked up my Anaheim post office box all this month.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2022

In a recorded jail phone call, he said after seeing a report of Shockley’s cause of death that she must have choked on her own vomit.

From Seattle Times Apr. 21, 2022

A poet who lived among sharp implements would have choked to death on a title as aspiring and pasty-faced as “Continuous Creation.”

From New York Times Apr. 15, 2022

“Come, eat something,” she said; but I put both away from me, feeling as if a drop or a crumb would have choked me in my present condition.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë