garrotte

Inside, it's styled like a traditional trattoria with all the trappings: bunches of oregano and thyme strung from the ceiling, armoured marionette soldiers from Sicily's famous puppet theatre garotted in the windows, black and white photo canvases, and mirrors and light fixtures garlanded with fake flowers.

She was raped, garotted and buried in a suitcase after leaving her violent husband from an arranged marriage and beginning a relationship with Rahmat.

to being garotted and trussed, then turned on a spit?

In the campaign an elegantly suited man coolly engaged in dragging an apparently garotted, semiclad dead female across an automobile hood.

We can all make total idiots of ourselves as we try to dance around it without being garotted.

Rab garotted himself on a clothes-rope after one too many Tennents, and Mary was dragged through a hedge by a drunken relative.

(Attacks on women were rare, or at least, very seldom reported in the papers.) Being garotted by a 'pecuniary phlebotomist', as these criminals were known, entailed the ignominious loss of a gentleman's accoutrements, namely his money, hat and watch.

They enter homes and seize people, whose bodies turn up later, often garotted or marked with holes from electric drills--evidence of torture before assassination.Khalilzad's denunciation of the militias was an extraordinary turnaround, given that the focus of US military activity since the fall of Saddam Hussein has been the battle against foreign jihadis and a nationalist Sunni-led insurgency.

"The pathology shows both the garotted and jugular were partially severed and death was inevitable.

To small and you look like you are being garotted, too big and it can make you look pinheaded.

Those of us who are pensioners or disabled, and who have managed to struggle up the pedestrianised areas to Broadgate, will in future be faced with negotiating what appear to be paving stones, slippery with water from the fountains and obscured by dry ice - that is if we haven't already tripped over scores of garotted and stunned pigeons, or had to dodge panicky birds unable to negotiate the electrified wires.