scourge

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishscourgescourge1 /skɜːdʒ $ skɜːrdʒ/ noun [countable] 1 HARM/BE BAD FORsomething that causes a lot of harm or sufferingscourge of the scourge of unemployment the scourge of war2 SCCPUNISHa whip used to punish people in the pastExamples from the Corpusscourge• Sustained international terror has been a scourge on civilized society for the past quarter-century.• Thérèse did not possess a hair shirt, or a belt spiked with rusty nails, or a scourge.• Some of my best friends have been taken by that scourge.• I just repeated the story about my speech on the scourge of gangsterism.• The scourge had abated, but psychological damage had been done, which was not so readily repaired. scourgescourge2 verb [transitive] 1 HARM/BE BAD FORto cause a lot of harm or suffering to a place or group of people2 PUNISHto hit someone with a whip as punishment in the past→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusscourge• In another age Preston would have been out there with the self-flagellants, scourging away for all he was worth.Origin scourge1 (1100-1200) Anglo-French escorge, from Old French escorgier “to whip”, from Latin corrigia “long thin piece of leather”

单词	scourge
释义	scourge From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishscourgescourge1 /skɜːdʒ $ skɜːrdʒ/ noun [countable] 1 HARM/BE BAD FORsomething that causes a lot of harm or sufferingscourge of the scourge of unemployment the scourge of war2 SCCPUNISHa whip used to punish people in the pastExamples from the Corpusscourge• Sustained international terror has been a scourge on civilized society for the past quarter-century.• Thérèse did not possess a hair shirt, or a belt spiked with rusty nails, or a scourge.• Some of my best friends have been taken by that scourge.• I just repeated the story about my speech on the scourge of gangsterism.• The scourge had abated, but psychological damage had been done, which was not so readily repaired. scourgescourge2 verb [transitive] 1 HARM/BE BAD FORto cause a lot of harm or suffering to a place or group of people2 PUNISHto hit someone with a whip as punishment in the past→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusscourge• In another age Preston would have been out there with the self-flagellants, scourging away for all he was worth.Origin scourge1 (1100-1200) Anglo-French escorge, from Old French escorgier “to whip”, from Latin corrigia “long thin piece of leather”
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