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Noun(1) complete power over a person or situation(2) a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe

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(1) If I were older, I'd catch him and hold him in a stranglehold .(2) The entire electoral setup has turned into a political stranglehold over the masses, offering no means for working people to express their social discontent.(3) A materialist understanding is, instead, an essential step in liberating culture from the stranglehold of commodification.(4) Radcliffe had become a rallying point for the country's other top distance runners, who all agreed to turn out in an attempt to break the African stranglehold at this annual festival.(5) Caught in an economic stranglehold , the Punjab farmer is sinking deeper into debt with every passing year.(6) The police officer was pulled to the floor in a stranglehold in a u2018violent and frenziedu2019 attack by a drunken man when she tried to caution him after a fight in Bradford.(7) The United States couldn't do enough to put a stranglehold around Afghanistan.(8) His eyewitness account describes the progressive stranglehold devised by the Turks and the sense of fatalism that developed within the city.(9) he broke the union that held a stranglehold on bus service(10) If sex workers organize, goes the thinking at the local organization, they feel strong enough to break the stranglehold pimps and policemen have on their lives.(11) The attempts to free academia and research funds from the stranglehold of methodological materialism can only help the creationist movement.(12) This stranglehold exercised over public information depends upon the control of the media by a handful of corporations.(13) He had taken but two steps before he was engulfed by a pair of slender arms and he endured the stranglehold of their embrace only as long as he deemed appropriate before he freed himself from his official bride.(14) Shankar himself broke away from the stranglehold of feudal culture where the patron's command was total.(15) Marco stuttered, and tried to loose the stranglehold at his neck.(16) The arm seized him around the neck, tightening in a stranglehold .