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say it: STRANG-guhl-hohld
stranglehold is a noun meaning "complete power over a person or situation". It is pronounced /ˈstɹæŋɡəlˌhoʊld/ — STRANG-guhl-hohld. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stranglehold come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.