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Garrotter

Definition: Garrotter

Garrotter

Noun

1. Someone who kills by strangling.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Garrotter

Synonyms: choker (n), garroter (n), strangler (n), throttler (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Garrotter

Language Translations for "garrotter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

στραγγαλιστήσ (strangler). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hóhér (axeman, butcher, executioner, hanger, hangman, headsman, jack ketch, ketch), fojtogató (smothery, stifling, strangler). (various references)

   

Manx

  

toghteyder (strangler). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arrottergay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Garrotter

Misspellings

"Garrotter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Garotta, garotted, garotter, garrott, garrotted, garrottee. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Garrotter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-o-r-r-r-t-t"

-1 letter: garotter, garroter, garrotte.

-2 letters: garotte, garrote.

-3 letters: garote, garret, garter, grater, orgeat, ratter, retort, roarer, rotate, rotter, target, tarter, terror, togate.

-4 letters: argot, ergot, error, gator, grate, great, groat, oater, orate, ottar, otter, rarer, rater, retag, retro, roger, rotte, targe, tarot, tarre, tater, terga, terra, tetra, togae, torte, toter, treat.

-5 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.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-o-r-r-r-t-t"
 

+3 letters: interrogator.

 

+4 letters: interrogators, interrogatory, tergiversator.

 

+5 letters: reregistration, retrogradation, tergiversators, turbogenerator.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Garrotter


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 61 72 72 6F 74 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-    .-.    .-.    ---    -    -    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100001 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#114 &#114 &#111 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0072 0072 006F 0074 0074 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

416784848186867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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