chokehold

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chokehold Definition

• (n) 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"
• (n) a restraining hold; someone loops the arm around the neck of another person in a tight grip, usually from behind; "he grabbed the woman in a chokehold, demanded her cash and jewelry, and then fled"

chokehold Synonyms

• choke hold
• chokehold
• stranglehold
• throttlehold