Is There a Word Garroted?

Definition of 'garrote'
If someone is garroted, they are killed by having something such as a piece of wire or cord pulled tightly around their neck. The two guards had been garroted.

What does garroted to death mean?

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.

What happens when someone is garroted?

n. 1. a method of execution in which an iron collar is tightened around a person's neck until death occurs.

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