"garrote" meaning in English

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          "text": "About this time the police reports were full of cases of garrotting. The victim was seized from behind, one man gagged or burked him, while another picked his pocket.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rob",
          "rob"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡəˈɹɒt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡəˈɹoʊt/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒt"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊt"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "garrotte"
    },
    {
      "word": "garotte"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to kill using a garrote",
      "word": "strangulieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to kill using a garrote",
      "word": "erwürgen"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "garrote"
  ],
  "word": "garrote"
}