English-Italian translations for stranglehold

• morsa
  Israele ha forse congelato gli insediamenti, ridotto i posti di controllo o allentato la morsa con cui soffoca Gaza? Has it imposed a freeze on settlements, reduced the checkpoints or loosened its stranglehold on Gaza?
  In realtà, gli agricoltori europei sono stretti in una morsa che li stritola e favorisce la loro scomparsa. European farmers are, in truth, caught in a stranglehold that both hems them in and that hastens their extinction.
  Pensa davvero che tale situazione non abbia nulla a che vedere con la morsa economica e politica in cui Israele stringe Gaza? Do you really think it has got nothing to do with the economic and political stranglehold in which Israel holds Gaza?
• stretta

Definition of stranglehold

• A grip or control so strong as to stifle or cut off
• to hold a tight grip or control

Examples

• For years the company had a stranglehold on the rest of the industry.

Related words

• strangle
• strangles
• strangled
• strangler
• strangle weed
• strangler fig