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
scrags
verb
1
as in butchers
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- butchers
- cuts down
- wastes
- snuffs
- slays
- finishes
- murders
- rubs out
- dispatches
- knocks off
- offs
- slaughters
- kills
- whacks
- ices
- croaks
- bumps off
- takes out
- puts away
- destroys
- claims
- mows
- neutralizes
- carries off
- blots out
- decimates
- fells
- gets
- kills off
- smites
- massacres
- assassinates
- annihilates
- martyrs
- takes
- euthanizes
- euthanatizes
- executes
- does in
- terminates
- puts down
- suicides
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- animates
- revives
- raises
- restores
- resuscitates
- resurrects
- nurtures
2
as in garrotes
Synonyms & Similar Words
- garrotes
- throttles
- garottes
- chokes
- strangles
- asphyxiates
- suffocates
- smothers
- stifles
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- restores
- revives
- resuscitates