stranglehold
/ˈstraŋɡ(ə)lhəʊld/
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American sound/ˈstraŋɡ(ə)lhəʊld/
stranglehold
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stran - gle - hold -> stranglehold
Myanmar meaning
နပမ်းလုံးရာတွင် လည်ပင်းကို ညှစ်ထားခြင်း။ သေစေနိုင်သည့် ဆုပ်ကိုင်မှု။ လုံးဝထိန်းချုပ်ခြင်း။
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stranglehold /'stræŋglhǝƱld/ n
၁။ လည်ကိုညှစ်ခြင်း။ get sb in a stranglehold.
၂။ (usu sing ) ~ (on sth) ဇိညှစ်ခြင်း။ The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on trade.
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- ‘The police officer was pulled to the floor in a stranglehold in a ‘violent and frenzied’ attack by a drunken man when she tried to caution him after a fight in Bradford.’
- ‘If I were older, I'd catch him and hold him in a stranglehold.’
- ‘The arm seized him around the neck, tightening in a stranglehold.’
- ‘The baby has a small teddy bear in a stranglehold.’
- ‘Marco stuttered, and tried to loose the stranglehold at his neck.’
- ‘At that moment, Lior sprinted toward the terrorist, jumped on him, grabbed him in a stranglehold, and dragged him six or seven meters away from the stricken policemen.’
- ‘He moved quicker than he could trace, and caught him in the same stranglehold.’
- ‘He had taken but two steps before he was engulfed by a pair of slender arms and he endured the stranglehold of their embrace only as long as he deemed appropriate before he freed himself from his official bride.’
- ‘The entire electoral setup has turned into a political stranglehold over the masses, offering no means for working people to express their social discontent.’
- ‘Japan is caught in a stranglehold of bad debt and deflation.’
- ‘A materialist understanding is, instead, an essential step in liberating culture from the stranglehold of commodification.’
- ‘Caught in an economic stranglehold, the Punjab farmer is sinking deeper into debt with every passing year.’
- ‘The stranglehold placed on the regional economy by cuts to services together with delays to modernisation could be catastrophic.’
- ‘Their limitations at midfield would catch up with them and a stranglehold of possession would limit their classy forwards.’
- ‘You've let your firm grip on practical considerations become a stranglehold.’
- ‘When one is caught in the stranglehold of addiction, all other concerns become a backdrop to the craving for the next dose, the next big fix.’
- ‘In fact, a financial oligarchy presides over America, which guarantees its maintenance of political power through the two-party stranglehold.’
- ‘The United States couldn't do enough to put a stranglehold around Afghanistan.’
- ‘Shankar himself broke away from the stranglehold of feudal culture where the patron's command was total.’
- ‘The corporate controlled mass media would essentially have a stranglehold on information distribution if it were not for the Internet.’
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