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garrotte
(redirected from garrotting)

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garrotte, garrote, garotte
1. a Spanish method of execution by strangulation or by breaking the neck
2. the device, usually an iron collar, used in such executions
3. Obsolete strangulation of one's victim while committing robbery


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They were permitted to carry on looting and garrotting the citizenry, provided they could produce the necessary paperwork upon request.
More than 1,000 incriminating files were found on his lap-top, including details of "household torture techniques" and garrotting.
A man named Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) finds $2m in cash among many corpses while out hunting antelope, and is subsequently pursued throughout the movie, across the border and back, by a terrifying freelance assassin named Anton Chigurh, whose literally unspeakable name is redolent of the evil he does - he murders two people in the first five minutes, garrotting the first with a pair of handcuffs, killing the second with a compressed-air slaughterhouse stun-gun.
 
 
 
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