Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

chokehold

UK /ˈt͡ʃəʊkhəʊld/ · US /ˈt͡ʃoʊkˌ(h)oʊld/ noun, verb

Forms chokeholds chokeholding chokeheld choke-hold choke hold

noun (martial arts, wrestling) A grappling hold around a person's neck, especially one in which the neck is grasped tightly from behind with an arm, cutting off the flow of blood to the brain and restricting breathing. “He put his opponent in a chokehold.”
noun (figurative, by extension) A powerful and restrictive control or influence over something. “One country has a chokehold on another country's economy.”
verb (transitive) To put a hold around the neck of (someone), especially one in which the neck is grasped tightly from behind with an arm.
verb (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To exert tight, restrictive, control over someone or something.

Synonyms

The noun is derived from choke (verb) + hold (noun). The verb is derived from the noun.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “chokehold”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details