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单词 garrotting
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garrottinggarrotingn.

/ɡəˈrɒtɪŋ/
Forms: Also garotting.
Etymology: < garrotte v. + -ing suffix1.
1. Execution by means of the Spanish garrotte.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > garrotting
garrotte1622
garrotting1890
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Aug. 6/1 In the way of executions, nothing so bad has been seen in Europe for a long time as the garotting of Higinia Balaguer, a Spanish murderess, at Madrid.
attributive.1890 G. Saintsbury in New Rev. Feb. 136 You go to the gallows, the block, the garrotting chair.
2. The practice of throttling a person for the purpose of robbing him.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun] > attacking and robbing
mugging1846
garrotte1852
garrotting1858
1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xvi. 54 She pursued the even tenour of her way apparently indifferent to everything—even to a garotting.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. vi. 134 The heaviest weapon of defence, bought in the days of garotting.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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