Meaning

3 senses

  1. To harass; to manhandle.

  2. To destroy or kill.

  3. (colloquial, obsolete)To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle.

    задыха́тьсяzadyxátʹsja

More definitions
  • wring the neck of
  • strangle with an iron collar

Translations

2 languages
Русский
to choke:

Origin

Perhaps related to Norwegian skragg (a lean person), dialectal Swedish skragge (old and to

Perhaps related to Norwegian skragg (a lean person), dialectal Swedish skragge (old and torn thing), Danish skrog (hull, carcass); perhaps related to shrink.

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Forms

scrags, scragging, scragged, scragged
Base formscrag · to scrag
3rd person singularscrags
Present participlescragging
Past simplescragged
Past participlescragged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyscrag
he, she, itscrags

Past simpleLesson

all personsscragged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave scragged
he, she, ithas scragged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill scrag

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scowlscrabblescragglyscrambleB2
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