Garrotte (Verb)
Meaning
Strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The victims were garrotted in a gruesome display of the monarch's brutal power.
- Historians claim that hundreds of innocents were garrotted during the height of the witch hunts.
- Heretic leaders were often garrotted or burnt at the stake as an example to others.
- People's screams echoed as the prisoners were one by one garrotted and thrown into the dark pit.
- When they couldn't be broken, the rebels were garrotted for refusing to give up information.