scotching Sentence Examples
- The firefighters worked feverishly to scotch the flames before they could spread.
- The company's new marketing campaign aims to scotch the competition.
- Bob's quick thinking scotched the plan for a surprise party.
- The report scotched the rumor that the project was facing delays.
- The team's victory scotched any hopes their opponents had of winning.
- The union's demand for higher wages was promptly scotched by management.
- Scientists scotched the theory that the meteorite impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
- The detective scotched the alibi of the prime suspect.
- The government's austerity measures effectively scotched economic growth.
- The court action scotched the company's plans to expand into foreign markets.
scotching Meaning
scotching (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Scotch
scotching (n.)
Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.
Synonyms & Antonyms of scotching
Synonyms:
- licking
- tearing-down
- prevailing-over-
- totalling
- devastating
- dissolving
- walloping
- conquering
- annihilating
- routing
- overmatching
- wrecking
- injuring
- winning-against-
- creaming
- disintegrating
- dynamiting
- extinguishing
- scouring
- surmounting
- defeating
- destroying
- beating
- triumphing-over-
- pulling-down
- spoiling
- trouncing
- deteriorating
- damaging
- smashing
- crippling
- mastering
- shattering
- mangling
- ruining
- demolishing
- clobbering
- subduing
- blasting
- mutilating
- besting
- harming
- vaporizing
- razing
- pulverizing
- nuking
- marring
- trimming
- wasting
- decimating
- thrashing
- crushing
- overcoming
- impairing
- whipping
Antonyms:
Synonyms:
- disfiguring
- exterminating
- removing
- expunging
- liquidating
- rubbing-out
- eradicating
- ravaging
- trampling
- taking-down
- extirpating
- washing-out
- wiping-out
- breaking
- gutting
- desolating
- killing
- sacking
- dismantling
- looting
- pillaging
- trashing
- wearing-away-
- totaling
- wracking
- eroding
- vitiating
- undoing
- sweeping-away-
- overbearing
- defacing
- drubbing
- doing-in
- blowing-up
- skunking
- murdering
- effacing
- disassembling
- plundering
- obliterating
Antonyms:
- putting-up
- fashioning
- framing
- fabricating
- framing
- protecting
- instituting
- bringing-about
- manufacturing
- constituting
- patching
- saving
- revamping
- mending
- establishing
- manufacturing
- patching
- molding
- revamping
- shaping
- assembling
- instituting
- founding
- putting-up
- doctoring
- organizing
- bringing-about
- molding
- preserving
- forging
- protecting
- saving
- founding
- shaping
- preserving
- organizing
- fashioning
- constituting
- reconditioning
- doctoring
- assembling
- reconditioning
- establishing
- fabricating
- forging
- mending
FAQs About the word scotching
of Scotch, Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.
licking, tearing down, prevailing (over), totalling, devastating, dissolving, walloping, conquering, annihilating, routing
producing, rearing, making, making, creating, constructing, forming, fixing, building, constructing
The firefighters worked feverishly to scotch the flames before they could spread.
The company's new marketing campaign aims to scotch the competition.
Bob's quick thinking scotched the plan for a surprise party.
The report scotched the rumor that the project was facing delays.
