Meaning & use
verklempt
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Overwhelmed with emotion to the point of being unable to speak.
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She got verklempt during her father's toast at the wedding.
He felt verklempt watching his daughter walk across the graduation stage.
A note on using this word
Verklempt comes from Yiddish and became popular in American English partly through comedy sketches; it is informal and used mostly in speech.
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overcomechoked up
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