scragged

verb

past tense of scrag
1
as in murdered

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2
as in throttled

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scragged
  1. murdered
  2. throttled
  3. whacked
  4. choked
  5. butchered
  6. strangled
  7. finished
  8. suffocated
Verb
  • If the appeals court agrees, Patterson would only be the second woman to receive a full life sentence in Australia, after Katherine Knight, who murdered her de facto husband and cooked parts of his body.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
  • On August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother, Andrew and Abby Borden, were murdered in the family’s home in Fall River, Massachusetts.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of murdered
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  • Russia’s domestic political opposition, then, has been effectively throttled since Putin launched his war on Ukraine.
    — Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Many chip components are location-constrained and can easily be throttled by geopolitical factors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of throttled
Verb
  • Poor guy is probably just trying to watch the home run derby in peace and just got drive by whacked by me.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 July 2026
  • Pop, a Romanian, was rolling through another service game when Bobker whacked an easy backhand beyond the baseline.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of whacked
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  • One young woman described her friend coming home in tears because a hookup partner had unexpectedly choked her.
    — Jennifer Givhan, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Keeping your registers from getting choked with dust also allows air to flow freely into your home.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of choked
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  • Cut marks and scrapes made by flint knives at consistent locations on the bones indicate local humans butchered many of them for meals.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2026
  • At the site, excavators found stone tools alongside bones of ancient elephants — and the recent paper, written by archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, suggests the remains were likely deliberately butchered by early human ancestors.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of butchered
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  • Court documents said Vecchio allegedly punched the victim multiple times in the face and then strangled the victim with both hands before kneeing her in the face.
    — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • On January 24, 2023, allegedly in the grip of this psychosis, Clancy strangled her three children, who were five years, three years, and eight months old, in the basement of their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, an affluent suburb of Boston.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of strangled
Verb
  • McCaffrey has either finished as the RB1/2 or missed 10+ games for six straight seasons, recording three of each.
    — Jess Bryant, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The body of the most extreme version of the automaker’s iconic sports car is available finished in either White or GT Silver Metallic with the front and rear fascias, along with the wing caps, covered in a green protective film.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of finished
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  • Irish authorities are reportedly seeking a warrant to extradite the primary suspect in the brutal murder of Jamey Carney, a 43-year-old New York mother found beaten and suffocated in her Killarney home last month.
    — Louis Casiano , Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Not all avalanche victims die by asphyxiation — injuries from getting hit by a wall of snow or being swept through trees and rocks can kill people even if they’re not buried or suffocated.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of suffocated
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