[guh-roht, -rot] 
[guh-roht, -rot] noun, verb, -rot⋅ed, -rot⋅ing.| 1. | 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. |
| 2. | the collarlike instrument used for this method of execution. |
| 3. | strangulation or throttling, esp. in the course of a robbery. |
| 4. | an instrument, usually a cord or wire with handles attached at the ends, used for strangling a victim. |
| 5. | to execute by the garrote. |
| 6. | to strangle or throttle, esp. in the course of a robbery. |
