Definition of Garroted

1. garrote [v] - See also: garrote

Lexicographical Neighbors of Garroted

garrets
garrigue
garrigues
garring
garrison
garrison belt
garrison cap
garrisoned
garrisoning
garrisons
garron
garronite
garrons
garrot
garrote
garroted (current term)
garroter
garroters
garrotes
garroting
garrots
garrotte
garrotted
garrotter
garrotters
garrottes
garrotting
garrulities
garrulity
garrulous

Literary usage of Garroted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Cazalla retracted but was burned alive; a brother and sister were garroted; a brother and sister condemned to imprisonment; and the exhumed remains of the ..."

2. A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe (1860)
"Our friend inquired of him how many he had garroted : " How can one tell ? " he said, shrugging his shoulders, " so many, so many ! ..."

3. Mysteries of Police and Crime: A General Survey of Wrongdoing and Its Pursuit by Arthur Griffiths (1899)
"One gentleman was garroted in the afternoon near Paternoster Row, another in Holborn, a third in Cockspur Street. A young lady of fifteen was attacked in ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Cazalla retracted but was burned alive; a brother and sister were garroted; a brother and sister condemned to imprisonment; and the exhumed remains of the ..."

5. A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe (1860)
"Our friend inquired of him how many he had garroted : " How can one tell ? " he said, shrugging his shoulders, " so many, so many ! ..."

6. Mysteries of Police and Crime: A General Survey of Wrongdoing and Its Pursuit by Arthur Griffiths (1899)
"One gentleman was garroted in the afternoon near Paternoster Row, another in Holborn, a third in Cockspur Street. A young lady of fifteen was attacked in ..."

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