garotte
[guh-rot, -roht]
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noun, verb (used with object), ga·rot·ted, ga·rot·ting.
garrote
or ga·rote, ga·rotte, gar·rotte
[guh-roht, -rot]
noun
verb (used with object), gar·rot·ed, gar·rot·ing.
Origin of garrote
1615–25; < Spanish garrote or French garrot packing-stick < ?
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Related Words for garotted
shoot, execute, slay, massacre, slaughter, butcher, exterminate, destroy, assassinate, behead, strangle, decapitate, lynch, asphyxiate, dispatch, mar, guillotine, snuff, ruin, abolishExamples from the Web for garotted
Historical Examples of garotted
She will burgle your office: she will have you attacked and garotted at night in the street.
Augustus Does His BitGeorge Bernard Shaw
I am so relieved that you have not been garotted, or blown into the bay.
A Daughter of the VineGertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Antonio Lopez, who attempted to affect a revolution in Cuba, was garotted at Havana.
The Every Day Book of History and ChronologyJoel Munsell
garotte
noun, verb
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