scrag
1 of 2noun
ˈskrag 
1
: a rawboned or scrawny person or animal
2
a
: the lean end of a neck of mutton or veal
called also scrag end
b
: neck
scrag
2 of 2verb
scragged; scragging
transitive verb
1
a
: to execute by hanging or garroting
b
: to wring the neck of
2
a
: choke
b
: manhandle sense 1
c
: kill, murder
Word History
Etymology
Noun
perhaps alteration of crag entry 2
First Known Use
Noun
1542, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1752, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
scrag
verb
1
as in to butcher
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- butcher
- waste
- murder
- finish
- cut down
- snuff
- slay
- off
- whack
- slaughter
- neutralize
- ice
- kill
- put away
- rub out
- destroy
- bump off
- take out
- carry off
- dispatch
- croak
- claim
- smite
- decimate
- fell
- get
- knock off
- blot out
- mow
- kill off
- annihilate
- massacre
- martyr
- assassinate
- take
- terminate
- execute
- do in
- euthanize
- suicide
- put down
- euthanatize
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- raise
- animate
- revive
- restore
- resurrect
- resuscitate
- nurture
2
as in to garotte
Synonyms & Similar Words
- garotte
- garrote
- choke
- throttle
- suffocate
- strangle
- asphyxiate
- smother
- stifle
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- restore
- revive
- resuscitate
- absolute idealism
- absolute impediment
- absolute magnitude
- absolute majority
- absolute maximum
- absolute minimum
- absolute music
- absolute of enfleurage
- absolute personal equation
- absolute pitch
- absolute pressure
- absolute reality
- absolute scale
- absolute space
- absolute state
- absolute system
- absolute temperature
- absolute term
- absolute threshold
- absolute time
- absolute value
- absolute weight
- absolute zero
- absolutely
- absolutely convergent