choke out

verb6

1. •
   To cause (a person) to lose consciousness by applying a chokehold.

   • We got out of the car, the guy resisted, and I choked him out. The bar arm was the tool of choice in those days. If anybody resisted, we just choked him out. — 2014
2. •
   To say (something) with difficulty, while or as if choking.

   • Language failed. Pause—impotent struggle for further words—then he gave it up, choked out a deep, strong oath, and departed for good. — 1883
3. •
   To prevent (something) from growing by overwhelming it or robbing it of nutrients.

   • We had reached the end of the grass where the bush and trees of the mountain slope had choked it out […] — 1907
4. •
   To extinguish (fire) (by depriving it of oxygen or fuel).
5. •
   (figurative) To destroy (something) by depriving it of a vital resource.

   • […] he would earnestly and pathetically plead that we should not, as Priests, suffer the serving of tables to choke out that inner life of the spirit which it was our first duty to feed and nourish. — 1915
6. •
   To prevent (light) from passing through.

   • The moment he pushes open the door the place speaks to me of prehistoric times […] when above the oozing bog that was the earth, swirling white gasses choked out the sunlight […] — 1969