stranglehold

Noun	1.	stranglehold - complete power over a person or situation; "corporations have a strangelhold on the media"; "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public" chokehold, throttlehold power, powerfulness - possession of controlling influence; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade"
	2.	stranglehold - a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe wrestling hold - a hold used in the sport of wrestling

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