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garrote

/guh-roht, -rot/US // gəˈroʊt, -ˈrɒt //

绞刑架,革囊,绞刑犯,绞刑具

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : 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.
    • : the collarlike instrument used for this method of execution.
    • : strangulation or throttling, especially in the course of a robbery.
    • : an instrument, usually a cord or wire with handles attached at the ends, used for strangling a victim.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    gar·rot·ed, gar·rot·ing.

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

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inkill
Forms: garroted
Synonyms
assassinate刺杀,暗杀,刺杀事件,行刺drown淹死,溺水,淹没,淹死了execute执行,实施,执行的,执行任务get得到,获得,拿到,得hit撞击,冲击,撞击声,敲击massacre大屠杀,大屠杀事件,屠城,屠城事件murder谋杀,谋杀案,谋杀罪,杀人poison毒药,毒物,毒害,毒slaughter宰杀,屠宰,残杀,屠杀slay杀死,杀人,杀戮,杀人犯wipe out歼灭,扫除,歼灭战,消灭annihilate歼灭,全歼,剿灭,歼击asphyxiate窒息,窒息而死,窒息性,窒息而亡crucify钉死,钉死在十字架上,钉在十字架上,钉住dispatch派遣,派出所,派遣人员,调遣dump倾倒,倾销,转储,甩掉electrocute电击,触电,电刑,电死人eradicate根除,铲除,消除,消灭erase擦除,抹去,擦去,擦掉exterminate灭亡,诛灭,灭掉,诛杀extirpate剿灭,剿除,剿匪,消灭finish结束,完毕,结束语,完结guillotine断头台,铡刀,铡草机,血滴子hang悬挂,悬挂式,挂,悬空immolate焚毁,焚烧,毁灭,荒废liquidate清算,清偿,清理,清盘lynch私刑,私刑罪,私刑犯,私刑犯人neutralize中和,压制,中立,隔离obliterate泯灭,抹去,销毁,湮灭off关闭,关,离开,关闭的sacrifice牺牲,祭祀,牺牲品,牺性smother窒息,扼杀,封杀,闷死snuff鼻烟,鼻涕,鼻烟壶,鼻息strangle掐死,扼杀,绞杀,掐死你suffocate窒息,窒息而死,噎死,窒息而亡waste浪费,废物,废弃物,废弃zap斩钉截铁,斩断,斩首,斩获x-outX-Outdo away with破除,废除,撤消,取消do in在做,做在,在做什么polish off抛光处理,抛光,抛光剂,擦亮put away收起,收起来,收回,收好put to death诛杀,殛毙,诛灭,诛戮rub out擦掉,擦出火花,擦掉了,擦出
as inchoke
Forms: garroted

Examples

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

  • Harleston had been shifting slowly from one foot to the other, feeling behind him for the man with the garrote.

  • Instantly the garrote loosened; and Harleston, with a wild yell, sprang forward and swung straight at the point of Crenshaw's jaw.

  • He smiled—somewhat chillily, it must be admitted—and whispered, his speaking voice being shut off by the garrote.

  • Garrote also means a cudgel, or heavy walking-stick; and the tourniquet used by surgeons.

  • He was taken to Havana, and died by garrote in the little fortress La Punta.