Crossword-Solution: STRANGLEHOLD 12 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Complete power over a person 1 answer
Force that menaces freedom. 1 answer
Hulk Hogan's choker? 1 answer
Overwhelming control 1 answer
complete power over a person or situation 1 answer
CHOKEHOLD 2 answers
Complete control 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STRANGLEHOLD (5)

Despite a slow start and some rough going, the Russian government by the end of 1992 scored some successes in its campaign to break the state's stranglehold on property and improve the environment for private businesses.
The 1993 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
But if Karlov takes it into his head to get you, and succeeds, he'll have a stranglehold on the whole local service; because we'd have to make great concessions to free you.” “Why wasn't I told this at the start?” “You were told, indirectly.
The Drums Of Jeopardy Harold MacGrath 1999
The newfangled Russian-Israeli commercial alliance probably won applause from Washington hardliners, eager to relieve the Saudi stranglehold on energy supplies.
Russian Roulette Sam Vaknin 2003
She was promised by Germany that if she came in she would receive the complete and perpetual control of the whole of the Pacific area-- and that means not only the Ear East, but also all of the Islands in the Pacific, and also a stranglehold on the west coast of North, Central and South America.
The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt 2004
Gresham’s unacknowledged version of the episode ran as follows: “The sleepy god had got the stranglehold on John Denville when Caesar Bones, a coloured gentleman, entered John’s house at Johnsonville (Mich.) about midnight.
Not George Washington P. G. Wodehouse and Herbert Westbrook 2003

Quotes with STRANGLEHOLD (3)

We have rule of lawyers, not rule of law. The legal profession has a monopoly over one branch of government as it was never intended to. The American Bar Association owns an entire branch of our government. We should not be surprised that we are the most litigious society in the world. It is big business with a stranglehold on one of the three branches of government.
A.E. Samaan
The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.
Andrew Pettegree Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation
Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and sexual lust intensifies. The price we pay for artificially buoying up this market is our heart's desire. The beauty myth keeps a gap of fantasy between men and women. That gap is made with mirrors; no law of nature supports it. It keeps us spending vast sums of money and looking distractedly around us, but its smoke an…
Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth
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Appears in: NYT, S&S.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1964–2002).