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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
garrotte .
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Examples
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Among the dead was a young woman garrotted with razor wire.
The Unlucky Thirteen TimChambers 2011
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Among the dead was a young woman garrotted with razor wire.
The Unlucky Thirteen TimChambers 2011
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And director Francesca Zambello kept a focus on storytelling so that the action was always clear, from the moment when the handsome captain of the guard, Narraboth, kills himself out of frustrated passion for the princess Salome to the moment when the princess, smeared with blood from the decapitated head she has just kissed, is punitively garrotted (rather than crushed by a shield) by another guardsman.
Washington National Opera unveils a lively 'Salome' Anne Midgette 2010
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It's of a beautiful young Chinese woman in the process of being garrotted during her public execution.
You've Got Soup ! Newmania 2008
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The court heard he garrotted her from behind, using the cord from his tracksuit bottoms, before inflicting "gratuitous" wounds on her lifeless body.
Archive 2008-11-01 Not a sheep 2008
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In one memorable episode, he feigned a reconciliation with several enemies, laughing and joking with them as they rode into his stronghold of Sinigaglia; whereupon he immediately ordered them siezed and shortly thereafter garrotted.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010
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Finally, if I may speak freely in a flowery fit of pure emanation, I conclude by signing here on the garrotted line that mine is a philosophy of becoming.
Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier) 2010
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The court heard he garrotted her from behind, using the cord from his tracksuit bottoms, before inflicting "gratuitous" wounds on her lifeless body.
The wonders of multi-cultural Britain Not a sheep 2008
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In one memorable episode, he feigned a reconciliation with several enemies, laughing and joking with them as they rode into his stronghold of Sinigaglia; whereupon he immediately ordered them siezed and shortly thereafter garrotted.
Archive 2010-04-01 Tim Stretton 2010
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 A young woman was garrotted somewhat graphically in issue #3, after all, and although Danny Duncan acknowledges her death, it still feels like nobody is taking it seriously.
What I bought – 20 February 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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