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Strangle vs Garrot - What's the difference?

strangle | garrot |

As verbs the difference between strangle and garrot

is that strangle is to kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle while garrot is .

As a noun garrot is

a stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

strangle

English

Verb

(strangl)
  • To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
    • He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.
  • To stifle or suppress an action.
    • She strangled a scream.
  • To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
    • The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
  • To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?

    Related terms

    * strangulate * strangulation

    See also

    * asphyxiate * choke * querk * suffocate * throttle

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    garrot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
    • The Army doctor used a garrot to stop the bleeding from the injured soldier's wound.
  • A seaduck of the genre Bucephala ; a goldeneye.

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