If someone is garrotted, they are killed by having something such as a piece of wire or cord pulled tightly round their neck. The two guards had been garrotted
strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain"
A garrotte is a piece of wire or cord used to garrotte someone. to kill someone by pulling a metal collar or wire tightly around their neck strangle (garrote )
A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted