All garroted synonyms
garΒ·rote
G g verb garroted
- shy β bashful; retiring.
- muffle β to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound: to muffle drums.
- balk β If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
- quiet β making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- repress β to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- demur β If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something or will not do something that you have been asked to do.
- curb β If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- squash β to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
- deaden β If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
- squelch β to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
- restrain β to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- still β remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- stumble β to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- cork β Cork is a soft, light substance which forms the bark of a type of Mediterranean tree.
- tongue-tie β impeded motion of the tongue caused especially by shortness of the frenum, which binds it to the floor of the mouth.
- crucify β If someone is crucified, they are killed by being tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
- dump β to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
- neutralize β to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
- dispatch β to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- guillotine β 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.
- zap β to kill or shoot.
- snuff β to cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.).
- waste β to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- finish β to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
- liquidate β to settle or pay (a debt): to liquidate a claim.
- sacrifice β the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- hang β to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- smother β to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- lynch β to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- off β so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
- annihilate β To annihilate something means to destroy it completely.
- obliterate β to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
- immolate β to sacrifice.
- block β A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
- cheque β A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
- stop up β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- baulk β the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
- execute β execution
- electrocute β Injure or kill someone by electric shock.
- eradicate β Destroy completely; put an end to.
- erase β delete
- exterminate β Destroy completely.
- extirpate β Root out and destroy completely.
- neutralise β to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
- bottle up β If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
- shut down β to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
- put the lid on β to be the final blow to
adjective garroted
- crucified β Simple past tense and past participle of crucify.
- electrocuted β Simple past tense and past participle of electrocute.