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Word entry · 7 letters

garrote

Best crossword clue

"Strangle with a collar"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ɡəˈɹɒt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aegorrtStarts with GEnds with E1 clues
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Definitions

  1. strangle with an iron collar

Word origin

From Spanish garrote. Doublet of garrot.

Used in a sentence

  • I have twenty times done that which by Busnée law should have brought me to the filimicha (gallows), yet my neck has never yet been squeezed by the cold garrote.
  • […] promising that, by so doing, the painful death to which he had been sentenced should be commuted for the milder form of the garrote,—a mode of punishment by strangulation, used for criminals in Spain.
  • The prison, scaffold, garrote, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work, / The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,

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