garrotteverb [ T ]
also garotte, US also garrote uk/ɡəˈrɒt/us/ɡəˈrɑːt/to kill someone by putting a metal wire or collar around their neck and pulling it
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Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- bump
- dispatch
- lynch law
- manslaughter
- martyr
- martyred
- mass murder
- necklace
- poison
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- snuff sb out
- throttle
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garrottenoun [ C ]
also garotte, US also garrote uk/ɡəˈrɒt/us/ɡəˈrɑːt/a metal wire or collar used to kill someone
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- decapitate
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- gallows
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- stone
- string
- string sb up
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