Synonyms of scotch

scotch

verb

as in to cream

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cream
• best
• master
• lick
• whip
• defeat
• win (against)
• trim
• triumph (over)
• crush
• skunk
• waste
• overcome
• pull down
• tear down
• prevail (over)
• thrash
• rub out
• destroy
• wreck
• subdue
• vaporize
• smash
• conquer
• rout
• ruin
• extinguish
• dynamite
• damage
• desolate
• beat
• dissolve
• total
• blow up
• shatter
• wear (away)
• pulverize
• clobber
• drub
• wash out
• harm
• surmount
• sweep (away)
• demolish
• nuke
• annihilate
• wallop
• blast
• impair
• spoil
• disintegrate
• deteriorate
• mar
• decimate
• overbear
• mutilate
• cripple
• overmatch
• injure
• trounce
• wrack
• mangle
• raze
• take down
• wipe out
• do in
• sack
• deface
• vitiate
• break
• scour
• blot out
• disfigure
• remove
• disassemble
• devastate
• erode
• gut
• dismantle
• undo
• stamp (out)
• cut down
• unmake
• loot
• eradicate
• expunge
• snuff (out)
• butcher
• obliterate
• plunder
• trash
• murder
• liquidate
• kill off
• mow (down)
• havoc
• slaughter
• extirpate
• kill
• massacre
• exterminate
• take out
• assassinate
• root (out)
• fell
• pillage
• dilapidate
• unbuild
• trample
• slay
• efface
• execute
• ravage
• zap
• dispatch
• despoil
• vandalize

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• build
• set up
• raise
• construct
• repair
• patch
• put up
• erect
• rear
• fix
• create
• form
• produce
• manufacture
• mend
• make
• shape
• found
• invent
• fashion
• assemble
• bring about
• frame
• mold
• doctor
• organize
• protect
• establish
• forge
• institute
• preserve
• save
• fabricate
• constitute
• conserve
• revamp
• recondition
• father
• restore
• rebuild
• reconstruct
• renovate
• remodel

Examples of scotch in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After taking charge in late 2018, Culp quickly scotched plans for an IPO of the entire health care business, and instead decided that only massive debt reduction would enable GE to simplify its business and potentially divide into durable, stand-alone enterprises. —Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024

Canada’s NorthStar Earth and Space has signed a multi-launch deal with Rocket Lab after Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy scotched plans to deploy its space situational awareness satellites this summer, Space News reports. —Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 June 2023

Talk of the couple installing an air conditioner — and thus, like the guy who threw out the induction oven last week, invalidating the carbon-neutral nature of the house — scotches the deal. —Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2023

With West Virginia scotched, the Democratic Senate map is undeniably constricting. —Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023