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choke off

  1. Put a stop to, throttle, as in Higher interest rates are choking off the real estate boom . [Early 1800s]

  2. Stop someone from speaking or complaining, as in Throughout the debate the congressman had to be choked off to give the other candidate a chance to speak . [ Slang ; late 1800s]



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It illuminates the ways in which increasingly restrictive rules and regulations have choked off the supply of affordable housing, constraining mobility today, with a disproportionate impact on the Black community.

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Failure to do so, it warned, could cause "defense production to grind to a halt and choke off manufacturing of other advanced technologies".

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Thanks in part to legislation that has choked off housing inventory, formerly working-class buildings like the one where Appelbaum resides are now out of reach for the working class.

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Still, some state officials in states with abortion bans have sought to choke off the supply of medication that induces abortion.

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This choked off Germany's once-abundant supplies of cheap Russian gas, at the very time when the country was phasing out nuclear power.

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