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Definitions: Garrotte |
GarrotteNoun1. An instrument of execution for execution by strangulation. Verb1. Strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "garrotte" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Synonyms: GarrotteSynonyms: garrote (n), iron collar (n), garotte (v), scrag (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impotence | Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear. |
Punishment | Capital punishment; execution; lethal injection; the gas chamber; hanging;Verb: electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines; decapitation, decollation; garrotte, garrotto; crucifixion, impalement; firing squad; martyrdom; auto-da-fe; noyade; happy dispatch. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Garrotte |
| Non-English Usage: "Garrotte" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (garrotte), Manx (garrotte). |
| "Garrotte" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Garrotte" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
garrotte | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "garrotte"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qafore metalike, mbytje (choke, glut, stifling, strangulation, submergence, submersion, suffocation, thuggee, thuggery, wreck, wrecking), ekzekutim me mbytje. (various references) | |
Arabic | الإعدام بالمخنق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | удушване на човек, удушвам, удушавам с гарота, смърт чрез удушване чрез гарота, гарота. (various references) | |
French | garrot (garrot), faire périr par le garrot, cordelette, étrangler. (various references) | |
German | garrotte. (various references) | |
Greek | στραγγαλισμόσ (strangulation), στραγγαλίζω (choke, scrag, strangle, strangulate, throttle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megfojtás (choke, choking, garotte, smothering, strangling, strangulation), kivégzés nyakszorító vassal (garotte), csavarófa (garotte, garrote). (various references) | |
Italian | garrotta (garotte), strangolare con la garrotta (garotte). (various references) | |
Manx | toghtey (choke, choking, clog, clogging, dyspnoea, foul, jugulate; strangling, strangle, strangulation, throttle, throttling), garrotte. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arrottegay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guarnecer com soldados, garrotear (garotte), garrote (defect, Esmarch tourniquet, garotte, kink, tie, top of shoulder, tourniquet, withers), estrangular (choke, emote, garotte, mug, quell, scrag, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, suppress, throttle), esganar (garotte, strangle, throttle), assalto (assault, attack, blow, bout, break in, burglary, flaw, garotte, mugging, onfall, onset, push, raid, robbery, rush, shock). (various references) | |
Romanian | strangula (Burke, choke, strangle, throttle). (various references) | |
Russian | удушение с целью грабежа, казнь гарротой, гаррота. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | garota (garrote). (various references) | |
Spanish | garrote (bludgeon, club, dancer, defect, garotte, garrote, kink, springer, truncheon, twister), dar garrote a (garotte, garrote), agarrotar (garotte, garrote, squeeze tight). (various references) | |
Swedish | strypa (choke, scrag, strangle, strangulate, throttle). (various references) | |
Turkish | boğazını sıkarak öldürmek (garrote), boğazını sıkarak öldürme (garrote), boğarak idam etmek (garotte, garrote), boğarak idam (garotte, garrote). (various references) | |
Ukranian | страчувати за допомогою гаротти (garotte), гаррота (garotte), задушення з метою пограбування (garotte), задушити з метою пограбування (garotte). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hình phạt thắt cổ (garotte). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "garrotte": garrotted, garrottes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: garotter. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-o-r-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: garotte, garrote. | |
-2 letters: garote, garret, garter, grater, orgeat, ratter, retort, rotate, rotter, target, tarter, togate. | |
-3 letters: argot, ergot, gator, grate, great, groat, oater, orate, ottar, otter, rater, retag, retro, roger, rotte, targe, tarot, tarre, tater, terga, terra, tetra, togae, torte, toter, treat. | |
-4 letters: aero, ager, ergo, gate, gear, geta, goat, goer, gore, grat, grot, ogre, orra, rage, rare, rate, rato, rear, roar, rota, rote, tare, taro, tart, tate, tear, teat, toea, toga, tora, tore, torr, tort, tote, tret, trot. | |
-5 letters: age, ago, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, ego, era, erg, err, eta, gae, gar, gat, get, goa, gor, got, oar, oat, ora, ore, ort, rag, rat, reg, ret, roe, rot, tae, tag, tao, tar, tat, tea, teg, tet, toe, tog, tor, tot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-o-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: garotters, garrotted, garrottes. | |
+2 letters: integrator. | |
+3 letters: gerontocrat, heterograft, integrators, interrogate, retroacting, theatergoer. | |
+4 letters: gerontocrats, heterografts, interrogated, interrogatee, interrogates, interrogator, overtreating, reformatting, registration, theatergoers. | |
+5 letters: deteriorating, disintegrator, gerontocratic, interrogatees, interrogating, interrogation, interrogative, interrogators, interrogatory, introgressant, orchestrating, preformatting, registrations, regurgitation, reintegration, remonstrating, reorientating, tergiversator. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 72 72 6F 74 74 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110100 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a r r o t t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0072 0072 006F 0074 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4167848481868671 |
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