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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation [syn: garrote, garotte, garrotte, iron collar] v
1: strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain" [syn: garrote, garrotte, garotte, scrag]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. (also garotte; US garrote) --v.tr. 1 execute or kill by strangulation, esp. with an iron or wire collar etc. 2 throttle in order to rob. --n. 1 a a Spanish method of execution by garrotting. b the apparatus used for this. 2 highway robbery in which the victim is throttled. Etymology: F garrotter or Sp. garrotear f. garrote a cudgel, of unkn. orig.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(garrottes, garrotting, garrotted) 1. If someone is garrotted, they are killed by having something such as a piece of wire or cord pulled tightly round their neck. The two guards had been garrotted. VERB: be V-ed, also V n 2. A garrotte is a piece of wire or cord used to garrotte someone. N-COUNT