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garrote
garrote is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 4 senses
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- 1noun
A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted.
- 2transitive verb
To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
- 3noun
an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation
- 4verb
strangle with an iron collar
"people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain"
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