Crossword-Solution: GARROTE 7 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Garrote n. A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron
collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become
extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is
inflicted.
Garrote v. t. To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the
throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.

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"The Godfather" weapon 1 answer
people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain 1 answer
hitman weapon Mob 1 answer
Weapon used to make Luca Brasi sleep with the fishes 1 answer
Strangling device 1 answer
Spanish mode of execution. 1 answer
Spanish device for capital punishment 1 answer
Rope for strangulation 1 answer
Old Spanish method of execution. 1 answer
Mob hitman's device 1 answer
Inquisition choking device 1 answer
Inquisition choker 1 answer
Infamous Spanish collar 1 answer
Footpad's weapon 1 answer
Spanish capital punishment by strangulation 2 answers
SPANISH execution 2 answers
WEAPON for strangulation 6 answers
CAPITAL punishment by strangulation 6 answers
STRANGULATION, weapon used for 6 answers
SPANISH strangulation, method of 6 answers
SPANISH punishment by strangulation 6 answers
SPANISH method of capital punishment 6 answers
HIGHWAY robbery in which victim is throttled 6 answers
THROTTLE in order to rob 6 answers
CAPITAL punishment instrument 7 answers
SPANISH capital punishment 7 answers
Weapon Animal 23 answers
Throttle 32 answers
strangle 39 answers
SUFFOCATE 48 answers
Choke 56 answers
retard 64 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GARROTE (5)

His head was passed inside the grating and fixed as at that moment when the first spring of the frightened horse had broken his neck between the bars as in a garrote, and the second plunge of the terrified animal had carried off his boot in the caught stirrup when it escaped.
Susy, A Story of the Plains Bret Harte 2006
All our other features are made for us; but a man makes his own mouth.” “Who was the person you sentenced?” “He was a young fellow that undertook to garrote a man who had won his money at cards.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2006
All our other features are made for us; but a man makes his own mouth." "Who was the person you sentenced?" "He was a young fellow that undertook to garrote a man who had won his money at cards.
The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist) 2004
And long after the Second Garrote had become but a memory, the two octogenarians lived on in their little cabin, Chaffee seeking with primitive pick, shovel, and pan the more and more elusive gold, and Chamberlain contributing to the common purse by cultivating a small "ranch," the best crop of which was the campers who came to chat of bygone days with "the original of Tennessee's Partner." At last, in 1903, their partnership of fifty-four years was ended by the death of Chaffee.
Tennessee's Partner Bret Harte 2003
After exhausting the enlivening resources of a package of morning papers, which at that time overflowed with records of every variety of crime, from the daily murder to the hourly garrote, he dozed.
Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 Various 2005

Quotes with GARROTE (3)

His tone dripping condescension, Lothaire crooned, “Ah children, it’s not yet story time.” He closed his eyes and turned away, saying over his shoulder, “To anyone who contemplates even nearing me while I sleep: I will garrote you with your own viscera.
Kresley Cole Dreams of a Dark Warrior
The handkerchief is the universal utensil of the seasoned traveler. It can be a sanitizing device, a seat cover, a dust mask, a garrote, a bandage, a gag, or a white flag. One may feel well-prepared with nothing but a pocket square.
Josiah Bancroft Senlin Ascends
He pauses then, studying me. “How would you have done it?” His question surprises me. “You mean how would I have killed you?”“Yes. Do you have a favorite method for such things?” Since he knows I am an assassin, there is no need to be coy. “I prefer a garrote. I like the intimacy it allows me when I whisper reminders of vengeance in their ears as they die. But in your case, I had sharpened my favorite knife especially for the occasion.” His brows quirk up. “Why no garrote for…
Robin LaFevers
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Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 21 times in crossword archives (1948–2018).