garroted

Verb

garrote (third-person singular simple present garrotes, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted)

1. (transitive) To execute by strangulation, to kill using a garrote.
   • I have not a sou, and for want of a few crowns I shall be garroted within a month unless I can escape, though, as I told you before, I have done nothing, a mere bagatelle; but the worst crimes in Spain are poverty and misery.1843, George Borrow, The Bible in Spain, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd.
2. (transitive) To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.
   • “And then Lee may have fallen into the river, and Norton been garrotted. It is certainly a formidable indictment that you have against Bellingham; but if you were to place it before a police magistrate, he would simply laugh in your face.”1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Lot No. 249”, in Round the Red Lamp […]

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