Antonyms for stranglehold
ˈstræŋ gəlˌhoʊldstran·gle·hold

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1. • Power
   • Wrestling 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

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
   

How to use stranglehold in a sentence?

1. Ken Buck:

   For far too long, companies like Google and Apple have had a stranglehold on app developers who are forced to take whatever terms these monopolists set in order to reach their customers.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Carl Higbie:

   The pharmaceutical industry has a stranglehold on the VA.

5. President Barack Obama:

   The way we break the deadlock on this issue is when Congress does not have just a stranglehold on this debate -- or, excuse me, the NRA does not have a stranglehold on Congress in this debate.

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