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Strangle Hold
- - a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.
Strangleholds
- noun - a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe
- 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"
Strangler Fig
- noun - a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers
- a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas
Strangulating
- verb - become constricted; "The hernia will strangulate"
- constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
Strangulation
- noun - (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid; "strangulation of the intestine"
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
- the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage
Stratagemical
- - Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle.
Strategically
- adverb - with regard to strategy; "strategically important decisions"
Stratocracies
- noun - government by the military and an army