Definitions for garrotes

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garrotes gar·rote

Spelling: [guh-roht, -rot]

IPA: /gəˈroʊt, -ˈrɒt/

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

You can make 373 anagrams from letters in garrotes (aegorrst).

Definitions for garrotes

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.

Origin of garrotes

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

Examples for garrotes

They would all be glad to see him seated in the chair of the “garrote.”

If the rascal does recover, what a beautiful subject for the garrote he will make.

He cleared his throat as though to disembarrass it of a garrote.

He was apparently as familiar with the garrote as the knife.

They were fugitives from the noose, from the garrote, from the guillotine.

Are you saying that name so that they may garrote you tomorrow on Bagumbayan?

What a splendid specimen of the powers of the garrote we have lost!

There she lay, the Fleming staring at her, with the garrote in his hand.

Then, on the morning after Christmas in 1996, John found JonBenet crumpled in the wine cellar with a garrote sunk round her neck.

They had dismounted the old man, and were about to garrote him.