<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain</li><li>the collarlike instrument used for this method of execution</li><li>strangulation or throttling, especially in the course of a robbery</li><li>an instrument, usually a cord or wire with handles attached at the ends, used for strangling a victim</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to execute by the garrote</li><li>to strangle or throttle, especially in the course of a robbery</li></ul>