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Definition: Stranglehold |
StrangleholdNoun1. Complete power over a person or situation. 2. A wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stranglehold" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
Synonym: StrangleholdSynonym: throttlehold (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Stranglehold (1962) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | Zimbabwe | President Mugabe and his ruling ZANU-PF party were clearly stunned by the defeat, and feared that their 20-year stranglehold on power might be threatened by an increasingly popular opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in the June 2000 parliamentary elections. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stranglehold" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stranglehold" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 88 | 35,154 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stranglehold": have a stranglehold on smb. ♦ japanese stranglehold. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stranglehold | 18 |
lyrics stranglehold | 10 |
ted nugent stranglehold | 9 |
lyrics nugent stranglehold ted | 8 |
stranglehold tab | 6 |
guitar nugent stranglehold tab ted | 3 |
nugent stranglehold tab ted | 2 |
guitar stranglehold tab | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stranglehold"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kapje për fyti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нещо което спира развитието, нещо което задушава развитието, задушаване (asphyxia, asphyxy, stifling, strangulation, suffocation), душене (cast, sniff, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | smrtelný stisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ضربت یاتماس خفه کننده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tenir la gorge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Würgegriff. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στραγγαλιστική λαβή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szorongatás (squeeze), szabálytalan fojtogató fogás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stretta alla gola. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | greim scoarnee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | angleholdstray golpe que estrangula. (various references) удушение (asphyxia, asphyxiation, choke, strangulation, suffocation, thuggee, thuggery). (various references) zahvat oko vrata. (various references) dominio completo, collar de fuerza. (various references) strupgrepp. (various references) engelleme (hedge, hindrance, inhibition, interference, obstruction, obstructiveness, prevention), boğazından yakalama, bastırma (appeasement, compression, depression, repression, suppression, whipping). (various references) удушення (stifle), мертва хватка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conplexus, conplexusque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stranglehold": strangleholds. (additional references) | |
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"Stranglehold" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: strangehold. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stranglehold" (pronounced stra"nggulhō'ld) |
| 4 | -h ō' l d | buttonholed, chokehold, foothold, freehold, handhold, household, leasehold, pigeonholed, potholed, stronghold, toehold. |
| 3 | -ō' l d | bankrolled, billfold, blindfold, centerfold, eightfold, fivefold, fourfold, Mangold, manifold, marigold, ninefold, sevenfold, sixfold, tenfold, threefold, threshold. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-l-l-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: headstrong. | |
-3 letters: dragonets, enthralls, gallstone, gasholder, gladstone, goatherds, longheads, strangled. | |
-4 letters: allegros, allonges, althorns, anethols, danglers, delators, dragnets, dragonet, drollest, enthrall, enthrals, estragon, ethanols, galleons, galoshed, gellants, glanders, gloaters, goatherd, goldarns, grandest, halogens, handlers, hardnose, headlong, hollands, ladrones, landlers, langrels, legators, leghorns, leotards, loathers, lodestar, longhead, negators, ratholes, reallots, rostella, shetland, shortage, solander. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-h-l-l-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: strangleholds. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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