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verklempt
adjective
[ fəˈklɛmt ]
• overcome with emotion.
• "she was all verklempt earlier this week over her latest split from her husband"
Origin:
from Yiddish farklempt, from German verklemmt, literally ‘pinched, squeezed’.
