scrag

verb

Definition of scragnext
1
as in to butcher

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2
as in to throttle

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrag
  1. butcher
  2. throttle
  3. cut down
  4. choke
  5. waste
  6. garrote
  7. finish
  8. strangle
Verb
  • Indirect signs also suggest the proto-Neolithic community also dined on the European glass lizard (Pseudopus apodus), which featured tough scales that necessitated a completely different type of butchering.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2026
  • But isn’t the manager culpable when his dugout repeatedly butchers fundamental baserunning and defensive basics?
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of butcher
Verb
  • About five miles separate Agoura and Westlake high schools, but there seemed to be a great deal more distance between them Friday night, as host Westlake throttled the Chargers 38-7 in a nonleague game.
    — Joel Beers, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
  • My contact at Proton Mail explained that the process can get throttled at the provider’s end.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of throttle
Verb
  • If the war does indeed come to an end and oil keeps falling, Warsh might get breathing room for rate cuts down the line.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 16 June 2026
  • Courtesy of the Abu Haikal family Haikal said his family’s own homes have been targeted in settler attacks, including having stones thrown at their home, their crops destroyed, trees cut down and property stolen.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 16 June 2026
Definition of cut down
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  • Almost constant air raids in Kyiv have now reached their third day, choking the economy in the Ukrainian capital and severely disrupting civilian life more than 4½ years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Both victims were illegally choked to death by white police officers.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of choke
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  • The next milestone will be moving beyond individual production lines and demonstrating that waste plastic-to-SAF systems can operate reliably, economically and at a scale to become a meaningful source of aviation fuel.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The Dodgers dropped another one-run heartbreaker in Detroit, wasting Blake Snell’s five innings of one-run baseball as the Tigers walked off with a 2-1 win.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of waste
Verb
  • That means the Senate's only practical effect is adding another point at which oligarch lobbyists can garrote popular policy.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Tony, unhindered by any sense of moral anguish, garrotes the man in broad daylight with a length of cable.
    — Adam Wilson, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
Definition of garrote
Verb
  • Van Gisbergen, the road-course ace with seven victories the past two seasons, finished 28th.
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Murphy was a diminutive, formal woman of Irish birth who never finished grade school but had a great appetite for learning.
    — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of finish
Verb
  • Prosecutors allege Clancy planned the killings by sending her husband to pick up takeout food and medicine, then, while he was gone, strangled the children with exercise bands.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Her body was discovered by children and had stab wounds, severe head injuries and injuries consistent with strangling.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of strangle
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“Scrag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrag. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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