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单词 garrotte
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garrottegarroten.

Brit. /ɡəˈrɒt/, U.S. /ɡəˈrɑt/
Forms: Also garotte, garrot.
Etymology: < Spanish garrote (the form garrotte being through French verb garrotter : see garrotte v.) = garrot (from 13th cent.) stick, spec. packing-stick, etc.; of obscure origin: compare garron n.2
1. ‘A cudgell to winde a cord as carriers do to packe their wantels with’ (Minsheu). Obsolete. rare.
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society > travel > transport > [noun] > of loads > loading > one who > equipment used
garrotte1629
1629 J. Mabbe tr. C. de Fonseca Deuout Contempl. 236 Thou hast..rich furniture for thy horses, siluer Garrotes or Wrests to packe vp and fasten thy Sumpter vpon thy strong backed Mules.
1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 82 There is another kind of torture, employed by the Spanish Inquisition..When the patient is placed in this apparatus, his arms, thighs, and ankles are made fast to the sides by means of small cords, which being tightened by means of garrots, or rackpins (called by some the Spanish windlass), in the same manner precisely as carriers tighten the ropes that fasten down the loads on their carts, cut into the very bone.]
2. The former Spanish method of capital punishment by strangulation; the apparatus for inflicting this.The cord was originally twisted by means of a garrote or packing-stick (see sense 1).
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > garrotting
garrotte1622
garrotting1890
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > garrotting > the garrotte
bowstring1603
garrotte1622
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 266 Throwing a cord about his necke, making vse of one of the corners of the Chayre, he gaue him the Garrote, wherewith he was strangled to death.
1832 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War III. 54 The man was hanged and quartered, the woman strangled by the garrote.
1837 J. Richardson Brit. Legion (ed. 2) viii. 210 I have no hesitation in pronouncing death by the garrot, at once the most manly, and the least offensive to the eye.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 89 He next went to Cuba..was wounded and captured, but escaped the garrote to follow Walker to Nicaragua.
3. Highway robbery performed by throttling the victim. to tip the garrotte: (slang) to use this method of robbery.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun] > attacking and robbing
mugging1846
garrotte1852
garrotting1858
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > rob [verb (intransitive)] > attack and rob
to tip the garrotte1852
1852 Ann. Reg. 78 The crime of robbery by means of suffocation, and known as ‘garotte’, from the Spanish mode of execution, has become exceedingly common.
1856 Punch 31 194 The old ‘Stand and deliver!’ 's all rot; Three to one; hit behind; with a wipe round the jowl, boys, That's the ticket—and Vive la Garotte!..Let them cly-fake, we'll tip the Garotte.
4. attributive, as garrotte-man, garrotte-robbery.
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1862 H. Mayhew & J. Binny Criminal Prisons of London 5 If India has its Thugs, London has its garotte men.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

garrottegarrotev.

Brit. /ɡəˈrɒt/, U.S. /ɡəˈrɑt/
Forms: Also 1800s garote, 1800s– garotte.
Etymology: < Spanish garrotear, < garrote : see garrotte n. The form garrotte is due to the equivalent French garrotter.
1. transitive. To execute by means of the garrotte.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > garrotte
scrag1823
garrotte1851
1851 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 418 Lopez..was publicly garroted at Havannah on the 1st of September.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 21 Nov. 4/3 The rule now is to garrotte culprits within the walls of the prison.
2.
a. To throttle (a person) in order to rob him.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > rob [verb (transitive)] > attack and rob
huff1832
garrotte1858
mug1864
to jack up1965
steam1987
1858 [implied in: R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xvi. 54 She pursued the even tenour of her way apparently indifferent to everything—even to a garotting. (at garrotting n. 2)].
1869 J. Greenwood Seven Curses London 201 A ruffian, committed for trial for garotting and nearly murdering a gentleman.
1890 Spectator 30 Aug. 263/2 Young ruffians of the class who garotte their schoolfellows to rob them.
1896 Boston (Mass.) Herald 16 Feb. 11/8 A man was garrotted last night at Bayard Street, New York.
b. transferred and figurative. To strangle.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.)
shendOE
whelvec1000
allayOE
ofdrunkenc1175
quenchc1175
quashc1275
stanchc1315
quella1325
slockena1340
drenchc1374
vanquishc1380
stuffa1387
daunt?a1400
adauntc1400
to put downa1425
overwhelmc1425
overwhelvec1450
quatc1450
slockc1485
suppressa1500
suffocate1526
quealc1530
to trample under foot1530
repress1532
quail1533
suppress1537
infringe1543
revocate1547
whelm1553
queasom1561
knetcha1564
squench1577
restinguish1579
to keep down1581
trample1583
repel1592
accable1602
crush1610
to wrestle down?1611
chokea1616
stranglea1616
stifle1621
smother1632
overpower1646
resuppress1654
strangulate1665
instranglea1670
to choke back, down, in, out1690
to nip or crush in the bud1746
spiflicate1749
squasha1777
to get under1799
burke1835
to stamp out1851
to trample down1853
quelch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
smash1865
garrotte1878
scotch1888
douse1916
to drive under1920
stomp1936
stultify1958
the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by strangling
aworryc885
achokeOE
astrangle1297
strangle13..
worry14..
choke1303
weary1340
gnarec1380
athroatc1400
enstranglec1400
gagc1440
throttlec1450
estrangle1483
stifle1548
snarl1563
thrapple1570
quackle1622
bowstring1803
scrag1823
strangulate1846
mug1866
to screw a person's neck1872
garrotte1878
guzzle1885
to screw an animal's neck1888
1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home viii. 184 This happens when the loop..has slipped and seized the creature just at the gills. It then garottes the fish.
1893 K. Grahame Pagan Papers 38 Commercialism, whose name is Jerry, and who studs the hills with stucco, and garrotes the streams with the girder.

Derivatives

gaˈrrotted adj.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [adjective] > garrotted
garrotted1860
1860 E. B. Tylor Anahuac ix. 247 Garotted malefactors sitting bolt upright in the high wooden chairs they had just been executed in.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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