Definitions for garotte

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garotte ga·rotte

Spelling: [guh-rot, -roht]

IPA: /gəˈrɒt, -ˈroʊt/

Garotte is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in garotte (aegortt).

Definitions for garotte

noun

1. a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
2. the collarlike instrument used for this method of execution.
3. strangulation or throttling, especially in the course of a robbery.
4. an instrument, usually a cord or wire with handles attached at the ends, used for strangling a victim.

verb (used with object)

1. to execute by the garrote.
2. to strangle or throttle, especially in the course of a robbery.

noun, verb (used with object)

1. garrote.

Origin of garotte

1615-25; Spanish garrote or French garrot packing-stick

Examples for garotte

garotte, therefore, might yet become popular in the larger world, and its evil reputation be removed.

It was felt that the stranger had bluffed for all he was worth, and that garotte had come out "at the little end of the horn."

Lajeunesse, garotte, and Muroc were invaluable, each after his kind.

On the way to his house he met Duclosse the mealman and garotte the lime-burner.

Executed in Porto Rico by the terrible Spanish method of the garotte.

But garotte had too much experience of life to be won by a stranger's handsome looks.

It was part of the unwritten law in garotte to let every man in such circumstances play his game as he pleased.

So garotte became a sort of theocracy, with Judge Rablay as ruler.

But Bent would croak: "Whitman's struck nothin'; thar ain't no gold in garotte; it's all work and no dust."

No one could imagine why he had come to garotte, but he had not been half an hour in the place before he was recognized.