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garrote

verb
variants: or garotte

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of garrote

choke, strangle, suffocate, throttle
Words Related to garrote

asphyxiate, smother, stifle

scrag
Near Antonyms of garrote

restore, resuscitate, revive

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