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English noun: scrag | |||
| 1. | scrag (person) a person who is unusually thin and scrawny | ||
| Synonyms | skin and bones, thin person | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | spindlelegs, spindleshanks | ||
| Antonyms | butterball, fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly | ||
| 2. | scrag (food) lean end of the neck | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cut of mutton | ||
| Part meronym | neck | ||
| 3. | scrag (food) the lean end of a neck of veal | ||
| Synonyms | scrag end | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cut of veal | ||
| Part meronym | neck | ||
English verb: scrag | |||
| 1. | scrag (contact) strangle with an iron collar | ||
| Samples | People were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain. | ||
| Examples | They want to scrag the prisoners | ||
| Synonyms | garotte, garrote, garrotte | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | strangle, strangulate, throttle | ||
| 2. | scrag (contact) wring the neck of | ||
| Samples | The man choked his opponent. | ||
| Synonyms | choke | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze | ||
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