scotched

verb

past tense of scotch
as in defeated

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scotched
  1. defeated
  2. crushed
  3. routed
  4. thrashed
  5. trounced
  6. destroyed
  7. clobbered
  8. conquered
Verb
  • French defeated Republican incumbent Jim Wright in a May Republican primary runoff.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2026
  • That’ll be particularly important after Paxton defeated Cornyn in a brutal primary where Senate Republicans and other Cornyn allies spent more than $90 million in his defense and attacked Paxton as unfit for office.
    — Matthew Choi, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of defeated
Verb
  • Prior to that game, Buffalo crushed the Rams, winning 31-10 with Stafford going 29-for-41 for 240 yards, one touchdown, and three interceptions.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • During the response, a tree crushed the vehicle as responders scattered.
    — Erika Angulo, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of crushed
Verb
  • Power is routed to the rear wheels through a new six-speed manual gearbox.
    — Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026
  • According to Clarksons, 36 percent of container capacity routed via the canal or the Cape of Good Hope traversed the Suez in early October, up from 8 percent between 2024 and mid-2026.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of routed
Verb
  • But in an ironic twist, part of the parking lot was underwater, a tractor had raised a berm to hold back the ocean, and just to the south, homes were being thrashed by waves.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Smith is said to have thrashed and thrashed in the death chamber.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of thrashed
Verb
  • This year’s show was trounced by the first Monday Night Football game of the year between the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos on ESPN.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Shares of the drone manufacturer jumped 10% after first-quarter results trounced estimates.
    — Michelle Fox,Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of trounced
Verb
  • Firefighters battling a blaze that destroyed six homes in south Orange County can expect a bit of reprieve Saturday afternoon as Santa Ana winds begin to die down.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Its owners, a family of three, left for a cruise before the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel destroyed their property.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of destroyed
Verb
  • That team held a players-only meeting after falling to 0-3… then got clobbered, 27-0, by the Houston Oilers in Week 4.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Then Beamer and his boys went on the road and got clobbered by Alabama to the tune of a 49-18 beatdown.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of clobbered
Verb
  • The announcement comes after a summer in which AI models have repeatedly conquered many of math’s longstanding open challenges, including one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems.
    — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Having conquered the world’s top stages as Wagner’s warrior goddess, the American soprano returns to New World Symphony with selections from Götterdämmerung.
    — Mike Hamersly, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of conquered
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