All garroted synonyms
garΒ·rote
G g verb garroted
- silence β absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- clog β When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
- congest β to crowd or become crowded to excess; overfill
- drown β to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- suffocate β to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- kill β to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
- gag β to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
- gasp β a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
- strangle β 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.
- stifle β to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
- fill β to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- muzzle β the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
- constrain β To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
- choke β When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
- wipe out β an act of wiping: He gave a few quick wipes to the furniture.
- murder β Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
- hit β to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- slay β 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 β 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 β Frank, 1908β2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- poison β a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- get β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- assassinate β When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
- obstruct β to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- close β When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- overpower β to overcome, master, or subdue by superior force: to overpower a maniac.
- suppress β to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- noose β a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- occlude β to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
- asphyxiate β If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
- dam β A dam is a wall that is built across a river in order to stop the water flowing and to make a lake.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- retard β to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
- stunt β to use in doing stunts: to stunt an airplane.
- squeeze β to press forcibly together; compress.
- wring β to twist forcibly: He wrung the chicken's neck.
- bar β A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
- stopper β a person or thing that stops.
- throttle β Also called throttle lever. a lever, pedal, handle, etc., for controlling or manipulating a throttle valve.
- die β When people, animals, and plants die, they stop living.
- stuff β the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
- constrict β If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
- garrote β a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- gibbet β a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
- strangulate β Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.