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Definitions for Garrote
[1] a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
[2] the collarlike instrument used for this method of execution.
[3] strangulation or throttling, especially in the course of a robbery.
[4] an instrument, usually a cord or wire with handles attached at the ends, used for strangling a victim.
[5] to execute by the garrote.
[6] to strangle or throttle, especially in the course of a robbery.
Words related to Garrote
execute, murder, hit, slay, massacre, slaughter, drown, poison, get, assassinate, clog, congest, suffocate, kill, gag, gasp, strangle, stifle, fill, muzzle
Words nearby Garrote
garrison finish, garrison house, garrison state, garrison, william lloyd, garron, garrote, garrotte, garrulity, garrulous, garrya, garryowen
Origin of Garrote
1615–25; < Spanish garrote or French garrot packing-stick < ?
Other words from Garrote
gar·rot·er , noun
Synonyms for Garrote
assassinate, drown, execute, get, hit, massacre, murder, poison, slaughter, slay, wipe out, annihilate, asphyxiate, crucify, dispatch, dump, electrocute, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extirpate, finish, guillotine, hang, immolate, liquidate, lynch, neutralize, obliterate, off, sacrifice, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, waste, zap, X-out, do away with, do in, polish off, put away, put to death, rub out