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stranglehold   (TTS Sound)

The noun stranglehold has 2 senses

• stranglehold, chokehold, throttlehold -- (complete power over a person or situation; "corporations have a stranglehold on the media"; "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public")


• stranglehold -- (a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe)