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Absolute dominance
Answer for the clue "Absolute dominance ", 9 letters:
chokehold
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A chokehold , choke , stranglehold or, in Judo , shime-waza (; ) is a general term for a grappling hold that critically reduces or prevents either air ( choking ) or blood ( strangling ) from passing through the neck of an opponent. The restriction may ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context martial arts wrestling English) A grappling hold around the neck that cuts off the flow of air to the brain 2 (context by extension English) A strong and powerful grasp on something
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. complete power over a person or situation; "corporations have a strangelhold on the media"; "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public" [syn: stranglehold , throttlehold ] a restraining hold; someone loops the ...
Usage examples of chokehold.
It was a fine balance, keeping the tax at a level that the merchants could stomach, and allowing enough contraband through lest the chokehold turn to strangulation and travel between Darujhistan and Pale dried up entirely.
He grabbed Rachel with an arm around her neck in a chokehold, and then in the mirror she could see he had a knife in his hand.
Daurthunnicar looked nearly as purple as his subchief had when her chokehold clamped on his throat.
But the creature simply stepped to the side and scooped him up in a chokehold from behind, and then applied a torturous elbow lock to the prince's sword arm.
Dennard slipped beneath Childer's left arm, got behind him, and applied a chokehold that would have crushed an ordinary throat in seconds.
She grabbed his arm, clawed his hand, realized he was going to tighten his chokehold until she couldn't breathe, until she blacked out.
Circe couldn't maintain her braced chokehold on Standing Bear without risking breaking Alacrity's neck in the press.
He was a transplanted southerner who had specialized in civil rights cases as a lawyer and had made a name for himself by suing the LAPD for its disproportionate number of cases in which black citizens died after being put in chokeholds by officers.
Amber had handled slaves since she was ten, so she knew grabs, blocks, arm locks, chokeholds, and other wrestling tricks.