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. waste
  4. choke
  5. finish
  6. garrote
  7. murder
  8. strangle
Verb
  • The plague victims likely hunted, skinned and butchered marmots for their meat and fur, which would have exposed members of the community to the bacteria, Macleod said.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
  • Normally, that involves making stone tools, butchering deer, or distilling birch tar.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026
Definition of butcher
Verb
  • Just that word, process, can throttle and snuff the life out of the subject.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Through a series of measures starting in 2022, Washington has cut off China’s access to the cutting-edge GPUs, throttling Chinese companies’ efforts in competing for the top AI models with US tech giants.
    — John Liu, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
Definition of throttle
Verb
  • Once again, no one is here for the play-acting, the time-wasting, the cheating.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • Rather than simply reducing power use across the board, the system attempts to identify exactly when machinery is wasting energy and proposes operational changes that can reduce consumption without disrupting productivity.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026
Definition of waste
Verb
  • This practice carries risks, such as choking and aspiration, or food entering the airway.
    — Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Historically, modest fires every seven to 20 years kept forests from being overgrown and choked with highly flammable dead wood and brush, Williams said.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 3 July 2026
Definition of choke
Verb
  • That was a 2019 Bahamas Bowl loss in Will Healy’s first season at Charlotte, which finished 7-6 for the 49ers’ lone winning season since elevating to the FBS in 2015.
    — Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • His youngest daughter is now among the six candidates in the special election that will decide who finishes his term.
    — Tia Mitchell, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
Definition of finish
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
  • Walker was abducted, raped, tortured and murdered after attending a Valentine’s Day dance with her boyfriend.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
  • Shanahan notes that the spoiler that’s in the very title of the play — that someone named Roger Ackroyd was murdered — is more than enough.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
Definition of murder
Verb
  • The empress returns to her chambers to weep, only to be strangled by a eunuch under the noble consort’s orders.
    — Lavender Au, The Dial, 30 June 2026
  • The warning is the second issued by UCSB police since May, when an 18-year-old freshman reported she was raped and strangled after meeting a man at a Sigma Pi fraternity party before returning to her dorm at Tropicana Gardens in Isla Vista.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of strangle
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“Scrag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrag. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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