garroter 的 2 个定义
- 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.
gar·rot·ed, gar·rot·ing.
- to execute by the garrote.
- to strangle or throttle, especially in the course of a robbery.
garroter 近义词
等同于 executioner
更多garroter例句
- 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.