SCRAGGED Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

scragged

verb

past tense of scrag

as in murdered

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Verb

That was the fate of Jeffrey Dahmer’s former apartment building and the Idaho house where Bryan Kohberger murdered four college students.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026
In 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby, were murdered in broad daylight inside their Massachusetts home, just blocks from the town’s busy center.

— Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of murdered

Verb

As Iran has throttled the Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea has become a lifeline for the Saudi oil industry.

— April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
Fighting in the Middle East has throttled the global flow of oil and rising energy prices are adding to inflationary pressures.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of throttled

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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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Then, in 1863, a collection of Missouri Confederate Bushwhackers led by William Quantrill rode into Lawrence and butchered 150 men and boys.

— Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of butchered

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When Beck finished, his lawyer asked Leigh to follow her to the table to sign some paperwork.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
Then there’s the Beyond Speyside series that launched last year with Jamaica Edition, a whisky that was aged for 12 years and then finished in rum barrels sourced from that Caribbean island nation.

— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of finished

Verb

Clancy's defense does not dispute that the 36-year-old former delivery room nurse strangled her three children with exercise bands in January 2023.

— Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
His arrest report also states that Hunter strangled the woman with his knee while pinning her to the floor.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of strangled

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