Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun garotte

1 sense of garotte

Sense 1
garrote, garotte, garrotte, iron collar -- (an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation)
       => instrument of execution -- (an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb garotte

1 sense of garotte

Sense 1
garrote, garrotte, garotte, scrag -- (strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain")
       => strangle, strangulate, throttle -- (kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes")