Synonyms for stranglehold
ˈstræŋ gəlˌhoʊldstran·gle·hold

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1. stranglehold, chokehold, throttleholdnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   chokehold, throttlehold, choke hold

2. strangleholdnoun

   a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe

   Synonyms:
   chokehold, throttlehold

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1. • Power
   • Wrestling Hold

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1. List of paraphrases for "stranglehold":

   strangulation, grip, bottleneck, vise, yoke, right-of-way

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stranglehold

   Synonyms:
   Sleeper hold, see there, also known as blood choke
   

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1. Carl Higbie:

   The pharmaceutical industry has a stranglehold on the VA.

2. Andrew Bernstein:

   For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

3. Bill Clinton:

   There has been a lot of talk about breaking the glass ceiling, i am tired of the stranglehold that women have had on the job of presidential spouse.

4. Lane Pittman:

   Stranglehold. i’m going from this emotional high, and then all of a sudden I just go to this extreme low of being in the back of a police car.

5. Naftali Bennett:

   If there is one thing I would want to achieve over the next four years, it is to break up the monopolies here and to break the stranglehold the big unions have on the Israeli economy.