Garrotted

/ɡəˈrɒtɪd/ verb

Definition

British past tense of garrotte; executed or killed by garroting.

Etymology

From garrotte plus -ed, using British spelling conventions. The British past tense reflects the British spelling preference for double consonants.

Kelly Says

Language historians can actually trace how the British and American versions of this word diverged in the 1800s through newspaper archives—American papers gradually standardized to one 't' while British papers kept two.

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