Usually means: Strangling with a cord, wire.
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  1. garroting: Merriam-Webster
  2. garroting: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. garroting: Wiktionary
  6. Garroting, garroting: Dictionary.com
  7. Garroting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Garroting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Garroting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. garroting: FreeDictionary.org
  11. garroting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. garroting: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  strangulation using a garrot

Similar:
garrotte, garotte, iron collar, choking, stranglement, strangling, strangulation, forcipation, guillotine choke, blood choke, more...

Opposite:
ungagging, unchoking, releasing

Types:
beheading, hanging, electrocution, firing squad, gas chamber, lethal injection, more...

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Similar:
garrotte, garotte, iron collar, choking, stranglement, strangling, strangulation, forcipation, guillotine choke, blood choke, more...

Opposite:
ungagging, unchoking, releasing

Types:
beheading, hanging, electrocution, firing squad, gas chamber, lethal injection, more...



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