garrote

garrote

verb

Definition of GARROTE

to keep (someone) from breathing by exerting pressure on the windpipe <the goons sent by the loan shark threatened to garrote the hero with his own necktie>

Synonyms garrote (or garotte), strangle, suffocate, throttle

Related Words asphyxiate, smother, stifle; scrag

Near Antonyms restore, resuscitate, revive

Variants of GARROTE

garrote or garotte