garrote
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.
— I have twenty times done that which by Busnée law should have brought me to the filimicha (gallows), yet my neck has never yet been squeezed by the cold garrote.
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Something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation.
— The mob boss was known for having his enemies executed with a garrote of piano wire.
动词 v.
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To execute by strangulation, to kill using a garrote.
— I have not a sou, and for want of a few crowns I shall be garroted within a month unless I can escape, though, as I told you before, I have done nothing, a mere bagatelle; but the worst crimes in Spain are poverty and misery.
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To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.
— “And then Lee may have fallen into the river, and Norton been garrotted. It is certainly a formidable indictment that you have against Bellingham; but if you were to place it before a police magistrate, he would simply laugh in your face.”
词源
词源 1
From Spanish garrote. Doublet of garrot.
词源 2
From Spanish garrote. Doublet of garrot.
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