VERB
  1. strangle with an iron collar
    people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain
NOUN
  1. an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation
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How To Use garrote In A Sentence

  • When two of the peasants dare to speak their minds about this state of unjust affairs in his presence, the ruthless prince orders them garroted.
  • For your $400 base-price ticket (benefiting international exchange programs), it's like the party in a movie about rich people, except no one gets garroted by a spy. The Meridian Ball: Champagne, bonbons, dancing, no speeches
  • He closed his eyes and turned away, saying over his shoulder, “To anyone who contemplates even nearing me while I sleep: I will garrote you with your own viscera.” Dreams of a Dark Warrior
  • Addams tells stories in which people electrocute, poison and garrot one another but in which nobody gets electrocuted, poisoned or garroted. The Charms of the Macabre
  • The villagers erect a crude garrote of hog's gut and horse hair that catches the prisoner - if he is fortunate - in the neck and instantly decapitates him.
  • After the AFL/NFL merger, the garrote process would happen again in 1970, on an even bigger stage. One Season
  • When two of the peasants dare to speak their minds about this state of unjust affairs in his presence, the ruthless prince orders them garroted.
  • In the meantime, he had cast off his accursed plaything and leapt over the railings like a boxer over the paregoric ropes which would have garroted him had he not been both careful and proficient.
  • To lessen this evil, the detectives one night quietly made visits to some half a dozen "lushing cribs," as they are called, in Eighth and Fourteenth Streets, and seized about thirty noted thieves, burglars, and garroters, and locked them up for safe - keeping. The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873
  • The autopsy revealed that poor JonBenet was strangled to death by ligature applied through the twisting of a fairly intricate garrote. Craig Alan Silverman: JonBenet Truths Might Still Be Told
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