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stranglehold

[ strang-guhl-hohld ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
a restraining hold in which one person uses an arm to encircle the neck of another; a chokehold.
any force or influence that restricts the free actions or development of a person or thing; a stifling grip:
to break the stranglehold of superstition.

stranglehold

/ ˈstræŋɡəlˌhəʊld /

a wrestling hold in which a wrestler's arms are pressed against his opponent's windpipe See also Japanese stranglehold
complete power or control over a person or situation

First recorded in 1890–95; strangle + hold ¹

The professors concluded that “abstinence-only programs have a stranglehold on sexuality education in Texas public schools.”

The agreement lessened the stranglehold India-Pakistan tensions had put on trade in the region for decades.

If concluded, the sale would give Rupert Murdoch an even greater stranglehold on the British media.

Come to California, where the regulatory stranglehold is killing our economy.

Galled by the stranglehold of the religious right, he has challenged the party to open itself up to young voters and new ideas.

Then, indeed, the Lhari had been lying all along, the vicious lie that maintained their stranglehold monopoly of star-travel.

Mrs. Trapes, I've got a stranglehold on that idea, for it is rather brilliant.

I leaped at the smother of bodies, ripped one away with a stranglehold, slashed at its throat.

It gave them such a stranglehold––with the right sort of men––and Brace was the right sort.

He reached for the arm around his neck and began breaking it free from its stranglehold.

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