Definition of "garrotted" [garrotted]

• Simple past tense and past participle of garrotte. (verb)

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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."
• "Among the dead was a young woman garrotted with razor wire."
• "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."