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How to sign: breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
"She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband";
Categories: breathe, respire, suspire, take a breath
How to sign: become or cause to become obstructed
"The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up";
Similiar / Same: clog, clog up, congest, choke off, foul, back up
Categories: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude
Within this category: crap up, gum up, silt up, stuff
How to sign: die
"The old man finally kicked the bucket";
Similiar / Same: kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, give-up the ghost, drop dead, croak, snuff it, pop off, conk
Categories: decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass, pass away, perish
