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Definition of garrotte in English: garrotte(also garotte) (US garrote) verb ɡəˈrɒtɡəˈrätɡəˈrōt [with object]Kill (someone) by strangulation, especially with a length of wire or cord. （尤指用铁环或绳、线）扼杀，勒死（某人） he had been garrotted with piano wire 他是被人用钢琴弦线勒死的。 Example sentencesExamples - A screwed up psycho from a rich family has been garrotting strangers and taking their identity, ‘like a hermit crab.’
- The problem with that scenario is that the lad who performed the service was usually quietly garrotted and buried under one of his own mulberry trees.
- It could have garotted her as she is only two years old.
- You felt instinctively as if something terrible had happened here: that the tribesmen had crucified the station master perhaps, or garroted the ticket collector.
- If I had made these statements a year ago, a royalist mob would have probably garrotted me with bunting.
- A witness has told a trial how the steward at a motocross track allowed riders to carry on after an 11-year-old boy was garrotted as the result of a crash.
- It also happens to be the truth, which is why I plan to have him garroted by Italian thugs.
- A kite-flyer later managed virtually to garrotte me as I strolled along the beach.
- It is difficult to imagine we are the same people who used to flock to see the guilty or the innocent burned alive, hanged, drawn and quartered, drowned or garroted.
- It's just the place to buy a helium-filled Dalmatian, while listening to old blokes with beards making a noise akin to a donkey being garrotted with cheese wire.
- Victims were shot, strangled, poisoned, drowned, garrotted, thrown from cliffs and hacked to pieces.
- Sneaking up on people and garrotting them from behind is a frustratingly difficult option, and the highest rating is accorded to those who can waltz through an entire level and kill only the primary target at the end.
- In that same month, he, accused of kidnapping and garroting a small child in France, faced the death penalty in a media-saturated trial.
- The mystery of how Britain's leading expert on him came to be lying garrotted to death on his own bed may have been solved by the author's greatest creation, Sherlock Holmes.
- When two of the peasants dare to speak their minds about this state of unjust affairs in his presence, the ruthless prince orders them garroted.
- A 17-year-old is found garrotted on Mt Victoria.
- The parents of his wife have been found garrotted in their isolated cabin near Buffalo, NY.
- ‘Multiple deaths’ are not unusual: the one fully documented bog body from Britain, Lindow man, had been garrotted, hit on the back of the head and cut across the throat.
- In the meantime, he had cast off his accursed plaything and leapt over the railings like a boxer over the paregoric ropes which would have garroted him had he not been both careful and proficient.
- I remember when he said he'd like to garotte her.
Synonyms put to death, carry out a sentence of death on, kill
noun ɡəˈrɒtɡəˈrätɡəˈrōt A wire, cord, or other implement used for garrotting. Example sentencesExamples - This one held a lone shotgun and revolver; the other items were more esoteric, including foils, swords, crossbows and bolts, spears, axes, hatchets, knives of all sizes and shapes, stakes, gallon jugs of holy water, and garrotes.
- The villagers erect a crude garrote of hog's gut and horse hair that catches the prisoner - if he is fortunate - in the neck and instantly decapitates him.
- But there was no blood as a practical matter because the garrote was already tightened around her neck, stopping the flow of blood from her heart to her brain when she was struck on the head.
- Each and every one of them is as adept with the longbow and the broadsword by day as he is with the dirk and the garrotte in the dead of night.
- She had been strangled with a garrotte made from a stick and cord and her skull was fractured.
- Why on earth should a serious villain entrust his money to a preposterous amateur, who has no aptitude for the task, and furthermore no training in the firearm and garrotte which are going to be the tools of his trade?
- He admits that she is equally adept at manipulating him to her cause as she is in the art of archery or the garrotte.
- It's painful to say that in front of them, but she was brutally murdered with a garrote, a device used like a noose with a handle.
- They also had a Tommy gun - and he had a garrotte or ‘cheese cutter’, a more silent way of killing.
- She was strangled with a professionally made garrote.
- Theoretically facing a death sentence, he mistook the police photography equipment for his notorious mechanical garotte, and remembers asking himself ‘whether this was the right time to shout something defiant and noble’.
- She was about to walk out of the restroom when she felt the garrote wrap around her neck.
- Then I was looping my arms around his neck, trying to use the bar between the manacles as a garrotte.
- So, I don't know why he suddenly went to that basement room, fashioned a garrote from something that was right there in plain sight and brutally murdered her.
OriginEarly 17th century: via French from Spanish garrote 'a cudgel, a garrotte', perhaps of Celtic origin. Definition of garrote in US English: garrote(also garrotte, garotte) verbɡəˈrätɡəˈrōt [with object]Kill (someone) by strangulation, typically with an iron collar or a length of wire or cord. （尤指用铁环或绳、线）扼杀，勒死（某人） he had been garroted with piano wire 他是被人用钢琴弦线勒死的。 Example sentencesExamples - If I had made these statements a year ago, a royalist mob would have probably garrotted me with bunting.
- You felt instinctively as if something terrible had happened here: that the tribesmen had crucified the station master perhaps, or garroted the ticket collector.
- Sneaking up on people and garrotting them from behind is a frustratingly difficult option, and the highest rating is accorded to those who can waltz through an entire level and kill only the primary target at the end.
- It's just the place to buy a helium-filled Dalmatian, while listening to old blokes with beards making a noise akin to a donkey being garrotted with cheese wire.
- In that same month, he, accused of kidnapping and garroting a small child in France, faced the death penalty in a media-saturated trial.
- The problem with that scenario is that the lad who performed the service was usually quietly garrotted and buried under one of his own mulberry trees.
- In the meantime, he had cast off his accursed plaything and leapt over the railings like a boxer over the paregoric ropes which would have garroted him had he not been both careful and proficient.
- ‘Multiple deaths’ are not unusual: the one fully documented bog body from Britain, Lindow man, had been garrotted, hit on the back of the head and cut across the throat.
- A 17-year-old is found garrotted on Mt Victoria.
- It is difficult to imagine we are the same people who used to flock to see the guilty or the innocent burned alive, hanged, drawn and quartered, drowned or garroted.
- A witness has told a trial how the steward at a motocross track allowed riders to carry on after an 11-year-old boy was garrotted as the result of a crash.
- A screwed up psycho from a rich family has been garrotting strangers and taking their identity, ‘like a hermit crab.’
- It could have garotted her as she is only two years old.
- When two of the peasants dare to speak their minds about this state of unjust affairs in his presence, the ruthless prince orders them garroted.
- The parents of his wife have been found garrotted in their isolated cabin near Buffalo, NY.
- A kite-flyer later managed virtually to garrotte me as I strolled along the beach.
- Victims were shot, strangled, poisoned, drowned, garrotted, thrown from cliffs and hacked to pieces.
- It also happens to be the truth, which is why I plan to have him garroted by Italian thugs.
- I remember when he said he'd like to garotte her.
- The mystery of how Britain's leading expert on him came to be lying garrotted to death on his own bed may have been solved by the author's greatest creation, Sherlock Holmes.
Synonyms put to death, carry out a sentence of death on, kill
nounɡəˈrätɡəˈrōt A wire, cord, or apparatus used to strangle someone. （将人扼杀、勒死所用的）线，绳（或器具） Example sentencesExamples - Why on earth should a serious villain entrust his money to a preposterous amateur, who has no aptitude for the task, and furthermore no training in the firearm and garrotte which are going to be the tools of his trade?
- It's painful to say that in front of them, but she was brutally murdered with a garrote, a device used like a noose with a handle.
- He admits that she is equally adept at manipulating him to her cause as she is in the art of archery or the garrotte.
- They also had a Tommy gun - and he had a garrotte or ‘cheese cutter’, a more silent way of killing.
- But there was no blood as a practical matter because the garrote was already tightened around her neck, stopping the flow of blood from her heart to her brain when she was struck on the head.
- Theoretically facing a death sentence, he mistook the police photography equipment for his notorious mechanical garotte, and remembers asking himself ‘whether this was the right time to shout something defiant and noble’.
- She was about to walk out of the restroom when she felt the garrote wrap around her neck.
- She was strangled with a professionally made garrote.
- Then I was looping my arms around his neck, trying to use the bar between the manacles as a garrotte.
- So, I don't know why he suddenly went to that basement room, fashioned a garrote from something that was right there in plain sight and brutally murdered her.
- Each and every one of them is as adept with the longbow and the broadsword by day as he is with the dirk and the garrotte in the dead of night.
- She had been strangled with a garrotte made from a stick and cord and her skull was fractured.
- The villagers erect a crude garrote of hog's gut and horse hair that catches the prisoner - if he is fortunate - in the neck and instantly decapitates him.
- This one held a lone shotgun and revolver; the other items were more esoteric, including foils, swords, crossbows and bolts, spears, axes, hatchets, knives of all sizes and shapes, stakes, gallon jugs of holy water, and garrotes.
OriginEarly 17th century: via French from Spanish garrote ‘a cudgel, a garrotte’, perhaps of Celtic origin. |