Definition of "garrotting" [garrotting]

• Present participle of garrotte. (verb)

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• "So he was still larding his conversation with Latin tags - he'd been a mighty scholar, you see, before they rode him out of Oxford on a rail, for garrotting the Vice-chancellor or running guns into Wadham, likely, tho 'he always claimed it was academic jealousy."
• "Memorable to read again of her lassooing demonstration on the staircase which of course went wrong many times over before it finally went right, but unfortunately half garrotting an unsuspecting Mademoiselle in the process,"
• "The skin abrasions from the garrotting are really appalling."