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garroter

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

蒜头人,蒜薹,蒜头,蒜苗

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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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.