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Definition of scourge in English: scourgenoun skəːdʒskərdʒ 1historical A whip used as an instrument of punishment. Example sentencesExamples - They were in hot pursuit of their escaping slaves, with whips and scourges cracking, and blades drawn.
- Begone, or shall I be required to chastise you with the whip and the scourge once more?
Synonyms whip, horsewhip, lash, strap, birch, switch, flail North American bullwhip, rawhide historical cat-o'-nine-tails, knout rare flagellum, quirt, blacksnake 2A person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering. the scourge of mass unemployment Example sentencesExamples - Rabbits are considered pests, being a scourge on crops and the natural environment.
- The fiction business, Bellaigue tells us, is troubled by twin scourges: speculative advances and competitive discounts.
- While alcohol is the number one problem, the scourge of drugs is also placing increasing pressure on the centre and its 17 permanent staff.
- In response to this serious social scourge the Ministry of Interior has issued an order to stop processing gun licenses.
- One of the greatest scourges afflicting Indigenous peoples in Canada is given only token attention, he said.
- He was involved, as a medical scientist, in work on eradicating two great scourges - poliomyelitis and rabbits.
- Unemployment, long the scourge of the Irish economy, remains very low, at around 4.5%, despite the recent slowdown in economic growth.
- In this way, public power will be misused and the society will suffer setbacks in fighting the social scourge of corruption.
- Capitalism is incapable of ending the scourge of unemployment.
- With new efforts to try to manage this killer disease it is important that nations begin tackling some of the problems that fuel the scourge.
- Zambia has been suffering from the scourge of fuel smuggling across borders because of its central location, the Energy Regulations Board has said.
- ‘Bill suffered the scourge of asthma all his life,’ he said.
- To be punished by the scourge of the seas was not a particularly happy thought.
- Despite huge initiatives and lavish spending, vast stretches of Asia and Africa continue to be afflicted by the scourges of hunger and disease.
- The street is the latest in Swindon where normal life has been ruined by the scourge of anti-social behaviour.
- This scourge can be countered only if terror has no hiding place.
- The finest hospitals lost one out of six young mothers to the scourge of ‘childbed fever.’
- The author of the report on the practical efforts of Dublin mothers against the heroin scourge supported the call for more resources to be made available.
- If we raise this money now, we will be preventing future generations from suffering this age-old scourge.
- Like every city, Sheffield suffers from the scourge of nuisance neighbours, but has taken a leading role in trying to address the problem.
Synonyms affliction, bane, curse, plague, menace, evil, misfortune, burden, cross to bear, thorn in one's flesh/side, bitter pill, trial, nuisance, pest torment, torture, misery, suffering blight, cancer, canker punishment, penalty, visitation
verb skəːdʒskərdʒ [with object]1historical Whip (someone) as a punishment. our people did scourge him severely Example sentencesExamples - They were men who did public penance and scourged themselves with whips of hard knotted leather with little iron spikes.
- After a criminal's condemnation, it was the custom for a victim to be scourged with the flagellum, a whip with leather throngs.
- He continued to scourge me even after I had collapsed onto the pier.
- As he is beaten, he falls on his back and can see only the foot of the soldier who is scourging him.
- Beattie stripped him of all his assumed dignity, and having laid his back bare, scourged him till he smarted keenly, and cursed again.
Synonyms flog, whip, beat, horsewhip, lash, flagellate, flail, strap, birch, cane, thrash, belt, leather North American bullwhip informal give someone a hiding, tan someone's hide, lather, take a strap to, beat the living daylights out of North American informal whale archaic switch, stripe, thong rare quirt 2Cause great suffering to. political methods used to scourge and oppress workers Example sentencesExamples - American privateering scourged British commerce during the Revolution, and some U.S. Navy skippers like John Paul Jones won famous single-ship victories.
- He was largely responsible for the purging of the Moscow region and in 1938 and was transferred to the Ukraine to scourge the party there.
- His little band of fighters scourged settlements on both sides of the Mexican boundary and stood off armies of two nations.
- Straddling two of the Indian subcontinent's mightiest rivers, the country is regularly drowned by flood crests surging downstream or scourged by whirlwinds from the sea.
- He also scourges the bureaucracy and the corruption, and the collusion between the Mafia and politicians.
- The Italian playwright was awarded the Nobel Prize for ‘emulating the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden’.
- Although carnal passion had scourged Poussin with the most literal and painful wounds of love, affection between the artist and his young bride likely arose through nurturing, gratitude, and devotion.
- He continued to scourge the defence with two more fine points from play, although there was an element of doubt about the first one.
- Since buying their way back to power with the people's own money, they have scourged the country with a series of random and ill-thought out cutbacks.
- The Abbeyleix Park Development committee say that they are still scourged with the amount of dog fouling in and around the Fr. John Breen Memorial Park.
- Eight hundred years have passed since the Great Conflict scourged the world and covered it in shadow.
- From the buzzing hive of contradictions that frequently scourge the truly gifted, there are strong signs that McEnroe wanted to do something entirely different.
Synonyms afflict, plague, torment, torture, curse, cause suffering to, oppress, burden, bedevil, beset devastate punish
Derivatives noun ˈskəːdʒəˈskərdʒər A person who whips someone. the sentence of the court was carried out by a scourger Behind the employer stood the magistrate and the scourger, and then the chain gangs and the penal colonies, such as Norfolk Island, Moreton Bay, and Port Arthur.
Origin Middle English: shortening of Old French escorge (noun), escorgier (verb), from Latin ex- 'thoroughly' + corrigia 'thong, whip'. Scourge is a shortening of Old French escorgier, from Latin ex- ‘thoroughly’ and corrigia ‘thong, whip’. It is a word used most often figuratively as in the Scourge of God for an instrument of divine chastisement, the title given by historians to Attila the Hun in the 5th century.
Rhymes converge, dirge, diverge, emerge, merge, purge, serge, splurge, spurge, submerge, surge, urge, verge Definition of scourge in US English: scourgenounskərdʒskərj 1historical A whip used as an instrument of punishment. Example sentencesExamples - They were in hot pursuit of their escaping slaves, with whips and scourges cracking, and blades drawn.
- Begone, or shall I be required to chastise you with the whip and the scourge once more?
Synonyms whip, horsewhip, lash, strap, birch, switch, flail 2A person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering. the scourge of mass unemployment Example sentencesExamples - If we raise this money now, we will be preventing future generations from suffering this age-old scourge.
- The author of the report on the practical efforts of Dublin mothers against the heroin scourge supported the call for more resources to be made available.
- Zambia has been suffering from the scourge of fuel smuggling across borders because of its central location, the Energy Regulations Board has said.
- One of the greatest scourges afflicting Indigenous peoples in Canada is given only token attention, he said.
- ‘Bill suffered the scourge of asthma all his life,’ he said.
- This scourge can be countered only if terror has no hiding place.
- In response to this serious social scourge the Ministry of Interior has issued an order to stop processing gun licenses.
- Rabbits are considered pests, being a scourge on crops and the natural environment.
- Like every city, Sheffield suffers from the scourge of nuisance neighbours, but has taken a leading role in trying to address the problem.
- The fiction business, Bellaigue tells us, is troubled by twin scourges: speculative advances and competitive discounts.
- Despite huge initiatives and lavish spending, vast stretches of Asia and Africa continue to be afflicted by the scourges of hunger and disease.
- In this way, public power will be misused and the society will suffer setbacks in fighting the social scourge of corruption.
- He was involved, as a medical scientist, in work on eradicating two great scourges - poliomyelitis and rabbits.
- With new efforts to try to manage this killer disease it is important that nations begin tackling some of the problems that fuel the scourge.
- To be punished by the scourge of the seas was not a particularly happy thought.
- Unemployment, long the scourge of the Irish economy, remains very low, at around 4.5%, despite the recent slowdown in economic growth.
- The street is the latest in Swindon where normal life has been ruined by the scourge of anti-social behaviour.
- While alcohol is the number one problem, the scourge of drugs is also placing increasing pressure on the centre and its 17 permanent staff.
- Capitalism is incapable of ending the scourge of unemployment.
- The finest hospitals lost one out of six young mothers to the scourge of ‘childbed fever.’
Synonyms affliction, bane, curse, plague, menace, evil, misfortune, burden, cross to bear, thorn in one's flesh, thorn in one's side, bitter pill, trial, nuisance, pest
verbskərdʒskərj [with object]1historical Whip (someone) as a punishment. Example sentencesExamples - As he is beaten, he falls on his back and can see only the foot of the soldier who is scourging him.
- Beattie stripped him of all his assumed dignity, and having laid his back bare, scourged him till he smarted keenly, and cursed again.
- They were men who did public penance and scourged themselves with whips of hard knotted leather with little iron spikes.
- After a criminal's condemnation, it was the custom for a victim to be scourged with the flagellum, a whip with leather throngs.
- He continued to scourge me even after I had collapsed onto the pier.
Synonyms flog, whip, beat, horsewhip, lash, flagellate, flail, strap, birch, cane, thrash, belt, leather 2Cause great suffering to. political methods used to scourge and oppress workers Example sentencesExamples - American privateering scourged British commerce during the Revolution, and some U.S. Navy skippers like John Paul Jones won famous single-ship victories.
- The Italian playwright was awarded the Nobel Prize for ‘emulating the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden’.
- He was largely responsible for the purging of the Moscow region and in 1938 and was transferred to the Ukraine to scourge the party there.
- The Abbeyleix Park Development committee say that they are still scourged with the amount of dog fouling in and around the Fr. John Breen Memorial Park.
- His little band of fighters scourged settlements on both sides of the Mexican boundary and stood off armies of two nations.
- He continued to scourge the defence with two more fine points from play, although there was an element of doubt about the first one.
- Although carnal passion had scourged Poussin with the most literal and painful wounds of love, affection between the artist and his young bride likely arose through nurturing, gratitude, and devotion.
- From the buzzing hive of contradictions that frequently scourge the truly gifted, there are strong signs that McEnroe wanted to do something entirely different.
- He also scourges the bureaucracy and the corruption, and the collusion between the Mafia and politicians.
- Straddling two of the Indian subcontinent's mightiest rivers, the country is regularly drowned by flood crests surging downstream or scourged by whirlwinds from the sea.
- Eight hundred years have passed since the Great Conflict scourged the world and covered it in shadow.
- Since buying their way back to power with the people's own money, they have scourged the country with a series of random and ill-thought out cutbacks.
Synonyms afflict, plague, torment, torture, curse, cause suffering to, oppress, burden, bedevil, beset
Origin Middle English: shortening of Old French escorge (noun), escorgier (verb), from Latin ex- ‘thoroughly’ + corrigia ‘thong, whip’. |