All garotting synonyms

verb garotting

• shoot — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
• slay — to draw (warp ends) through the heddle eyes of the harness or through the dents of the reed in accordance with a given plan for weaving a fabric.
• massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
• slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
• butcher — A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• assassinate — When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
• behead — If someone is beheaded, their head is cut off, usually because they have been found guilty of a crime.
• strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
• decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
• lynch — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
• asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
• dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
• mar — to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
• guillotine — a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the French Revolution.
• snuff — to cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.).
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• abolish — If someone in authority abolishes a system or practice, they formally put an end to it.
• waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
• knife — an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
• finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
• hit — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
• liquidate — to settle or pay (a debt): to liquidate a claim.
• hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• smother — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
• spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
• misuse — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
• chill — When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze.
• off — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
• cool — Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
• drub — to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
• defeat — If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
• thrash — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
• mangle — to smooth or press with a mangle.
• garotte — to execute by the garrote.
• bump off — To bump someone off means to kill them.
• do in — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
• knock off — an act or instance of knocking.
• put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• rub out — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
• blot out — If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
• dust off — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
• take for a ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
• take out — the act of taking.