garotte n an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation v strangle with an iron collar Usage(s) The photographs showed the garotte used to strangle six-year-old JonBenet, a rope tied to her wrist and a scene of her body lying in the Ramsey living room, where her father had . Vicious murderers, like matricides, get the garotte. Synonym(s) garrote garrotte iron collar scrag