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scourge Noun

— A scourge is a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering. is the scourge of building owners everywhere. — A scourge is a leather whip. He flogged him with a scourge.

scourge Verb

— If you scourge someone, you cause suffering to them.

scourge

— noun a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor) — verb punish severely; excoriate — verb (= flagellate) whip The religious fanatics flagellated themselves — noun (= terror) a person who inspires fear or dread he was the terror of the neighborhood — noun (= bane) something causing misery or death the bane of my life — verb (= lay waste to, waste) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

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scourge English » English

whip lash flog plague flagellate beat chastise punish thrash curse flagellum waste threat terror switch spank ravage lay waste to devastate desolate calamity trounce torment strap stick penalize nemesis knout horsewhip harass flail epidemic discipline cane bane wound worry whop whipping visitation torture tormentor tawse spanking sore smite smack shellac sentence scourse

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Social behavior Law

Punish

Conjugation scourge conjugation

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scourge · verb

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Simple sentences

They heard that a Seven-Headed Dragon was ravaging the neighbouring kingdom, and that the king had promised his daughter's hand to anyone that would free the land from this scourge.

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It spread like a scourge through the ship.
Doctors assigned the plague a medical name, but a persistent rumor circulated among the people that a vampire was the cause of the scourge.
But God, in His infinite mercy, turned away the scourge.
But are we sure we don't deserve this scourge?
Like a plague passing from hand to hand so the scourge of witchcraft spreads across this land even to men in other lands.
We pretend to take up hope again as the image recedes into the past, as if we were cured once and for all of the scourge of the camps.
How could a man be so disturbed by a scourge from the early 18th century?
He decides whom to protect from the scourge or not.
And it is written that in the year 63 B.C the Roman legions, like a scourge of locusts poured through the east laying waste the land of Canaan and the kingdom of Judea.
Scourge him!
Why scourge yourself because of it?
Take the Nazarene, scourge him and bring him here again and he shall be crucified.
They put the scourge back into the fist.
Any other scourge would have been easier to bear.
Why dost thou scourge mankind with War, Plague, Famine?
Mack the Black, scourge of the seven seas.
Oh, yes, Sire. Till the scourge brought about his untimely end.
Breckenridge's scourge.
To end for all time the scourge of warfare.
Thank the divine providence, that it relieved you of the scourge of the plague.
He's a scourge from God!
So this court will, therefore, scourge and chastise him.
The FLN is leading a campaign to eradicate this scourge and requests the population's help and cooperation.
But he knows that now, there is still another scourge threatening it.
The man is a scourge!
But are we sure we haven't deserved this scourge? Are we sure we've always lived according to the Lord's laws?
Like a plague passing from hand to hand so the scourge of witchcraft spreads across this land even to men in other lands. Aye, even to my brother Richard.
But the scourge of radiation poisoning distorting their minds and their bodies, generation after generation set them back to the dark ages of man's history.
The last male has died on our planet due to the atomic scourge.
I don't say that to scourge myself.
Here, our scourge, it's Nizaemon, the messenger.
See, what a scourge is laid upon your hates, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
God, who sendeth us the scourge of love in the time of plague.
And that is it Hath made me rig my navy; I mean To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome cast on my noble father.
Go, bid her rise up. Go bid her come. the Lord has in His hand. the scourge.
My scourge.
The scourge!

News and current affairs

Even the once famously tolerant Dutch and Danes are increasingly voting for parties that fulminate against the scourge of immigration.
As we continue to fight the scourge of terrorism in our country, we call on all countries not only to mourn the dead in Paris, but to reject terrorism in all of its forms.
This has helped to lower not only poverty, but also inequality, Latin America's traditional scourge.
It took a worse catastrophe, a world-historical scourge, to teach these people a lesson.
The sooner this happens, the sooner one more scourge of financial instability will be behind us.
Perhaps even more important, it could change public perceptions of migrants, so that they are viewed as a blessing rather than a scourge.
Make no mistake: the scourge of Pakistani terrorism emanates more from the country's Scotch whisky-sipping generals than from the bead-rubbing mullahs.
Such a counter-terrorism policy will not eliminate the scourge of terrorism any more than modern medicine can eliminate disease.
While illicit drugs are moved through all Central Asian countries, Tajikistan bears the brunt of the scourge due to its location at the northern border of Afghanistan.
In the 1980s traditional Chinese respect for education was revived after the scourge of the Mao years.
The Madrid bombings have made Europeans feel the scourge of terrorism in their bones.
Today, in an arc that stretches from the Far East through the Middle East to the streets of cities in Europe and the United States, we face a scourge that has taken innocent lives, scarred communities, and destabilized countries.
In the terrorist attacks against the US, many Turks found vindication of their decades-long effort to draw the world's attention - and in particular European attention - to the scourge of terror.
There the scourge began in earnest; there (as elsewhere in Africa) it exacts its highest toll.
It is time for the US to recognize that since it launched its war on terror, the scourge has only spread.
To address the scourge of cancer, we must complement efforts to detect and treat cancer with new ways to keep people from developing the disease in the first place.
Rather than considering such questions, the US remains focused on the external scourge of Islamic terrorism.
ALESSANDRIA, ITALY - Tax evasion is a global scourge.
This damaged India's growth prospects and hopes of alleviating its ancient scourge of mass poverty.
Malaria is a scourge, particularly for inhabitants of poor tropical countries.
Desktop-based chess programs have considerably surpassed the best human players over the past decade, and cheating has become a growing scourge.
But his personal popularity then plummeted, owing to the spate of separatist violence in the Muslim-dominated south and the scourge of corruption.

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