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garrotte

[ UK /ɡˈæɹɒt/ ]
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

How To Use garrotte In A Sentence

  • It's just the place to buy a helium-filled Dalmatian, while listening to old blokes with beards making a noise akin to a donkey being garrotted with cheese wire.
  • On the merest criticism of tax credits from the say Purnell-led frontbench, he'd gnaw our green leather seats through to their springs and garrotte with the microphones that dangle from the eves whomsoever of our number happened to be in the way. GORDON'S PRONOUNCED DIFFICULTIES
  • Victims were shot, strangled, poisoned, drowned, garrotted, thrown from cliffs and hacked to pieces.
  • Victims were shot, strangled, poisoned, drowned, garrotted, thrown from cliffs and hacked to pieces.
  • A witness has told a trial how the steward at a motocross track allowed riders to carry on after an 11-year-old boy was garrotted as the result of a crash.
  • The court heard he garrotted her from behind, using the cord from his tracksuit bottoms, before inflicting "gratuitous" wounds on her lifeless body. Archive 2008-11-01
  • Why on earth should a serious villain entrust his money to a preposterous amateur, who has no aptitude for the task, and furthermore no training in the firearm and garrotte which are going to be the tools of his trade?
  • Finally, if I may speak freely in a flowery fit of pure emanation, I conclude by signing here on the garrotted line that mine is a philosophy of becoming. Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)
  • He admits that she is equally adept at manipulating him to her cause as she is in the art of archery or the garrotte.
  • The parents of his wife have been found garrotted in their isolated cabin near Buffalo, NY.
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