throttlehold

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsstrangleholdchokehold

   Broaderpower

Other forms of throttlehold

plural

throttleholds·

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.

Questions about throttlehold

What does throttlehold mean?

throttlehold means "complete power over a person or situation".

How many syllables are in throttlehold?

throttlehold has 3 syllables: thrott-le-hold. The stress falls on "thrott".

What is another word for throttlehold?

Close synonyms include stranglehold, chokehold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is throttlehold a common word?

throttlehold is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.