Similar words: choke hold, choke, take hold, choked, choker, take hold of, choke off, choke up. Meaning: n. 1. complete power over a person or situation 2. a restraining hold; someone loops the arm around the neck of another person in a tight grip, usually from behind.
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1) The president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public.
2) Jack puts a chokehold on Rick when he comes in the shed but Teri and Kim beg him to let go.
3) He grabbed the woman in a chokehold, demanded her cash and jewelry, and then fled.
4) One worry is that Beijing's chokehold on exports could hurt foreign companies and drive up international prices.
5) Which is exactly what happened on November 4, 2009, when 24-year-old inmate Douglas Burden put 64-year-old deputy Kenneth Moon in a chokehold.
6) The investment community has long considered the newspaper holdings nothing more than a result of Rupert's vanity and chokehold on News Corp. votes, and has discounted the shares accordingly.
7) While an actual alliance with OPEC seems far-fetched, concerns already run high in the U. S. and Europe that Moscow is trying to increase its chokehold over Europe's energy needs.
8) Israel’s system of proportional voting has given the settlers and zealots a chokehold over politics.
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