"garrote" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɡəˈɹɒt/, /ɡəˈɹoʊt/ Audio: En-us-garrote.ogg [US] Forms: garrotes [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒt, -əʊt Etymology: From Spanish garrote. Doublet of garrot. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|garrote}} Spanish garrote, {{doublet|en|garrot}} Doublet of garrot Head templates: {{en-noun}} garrote (plural garrotes)
  1. (historical) An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation. Tags: historical Translations (iron collar used to execute by strangulation): garrot [masculine] (Catalan), wurgpaal [masculine] (Dutch), Würgeisen [neuter] (German), garrote [masculine] (Portuguese), гаррота (garrota) [feminine] (Russian), garrote [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-garrote-en-noun-DKUGgFlo Disambiguation of 'iron collar used to execute by strangulation': 75 25
  2. Something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation. Translations (cord or wire used for strangulation): Garotte [feminine] (German), garrote [masculine] (Portuguese), гаррота (garrota) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-garrote-en-noun-c7PgjxZe Disambiguation of 'cord or wire used for strangulation': 21 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: garrotte [UK], garotte

Verb

IPA: /ɡəˈɹɒt/, /ɡəˈɹoʊt/ Audio: En-us-garrote.ogg [US] Forms: garrotes [present, singular, third-person], garroting [participle, present], garroted [participle, past], garroted [past]
Rhymes: -ɒt, -əʊt Etymology: From Spanish garrote. Doublet of garrot. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|garrote}} Spanish garrote, {{doublet|en|garrot}} Doublet of garrot Head templates: {{en-verb}} garrote (third-person singular simple present garrotes, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted)
  1. (transitive) To execute by strangulation, to kill using a garrote. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-garrote-en-verb-k-3DjwrE
  2. (transitive) To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Capital punishment
    Sense id: en-garrote-en-verb-nAfkqie2 Disambiguation of Capital punishment: 23 3 29 46 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 6 15 67 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 7 25 53
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: garrotte [UK], garotte Related terms: garrot

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "garotte"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "garrote"
  ],
  "word": "garrote"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.