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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Unable to speak because of emotion; choked up.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of verklempt.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Yiddish farklemt, past participle of farklemmen, to clamp, catch (as in a vise), choke up, from Middle High German verklemmen : ver-, pref. denoting completion (from Old High German far-; see per- in Indo-European roots) + klemmen, to grip, seize (from Old High German).]

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