garote
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- garoter noun
Example Sentences
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A court-martial condemned him in contumaciam to death by “garote vil,” and he had to hide in the house of a friend until he escaped to France.
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Hundreds have perished by this and other modes of torture, and the gallows and garote seem never to be unoccupied.
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"Or I'll have to garote you," put in Phil, leaning over toward me with extended thumb and finger; but I skipped away and got beside Max.
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In this kind of search the caravan pursued the borders of the river, sometimes on this side and sometimes on that, now passing the two-headed mountain Camanti, now sighting the tufted peak of Basiri, now crossing the torrent called the Garote.
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Along the side of the Camanti, where the yellow Garote leaked downward in a rocky ravine, the Bolivians were again successful.
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