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单词 scourge
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scourge

noun
/skɜːdʒ/
/skɜːrdʒ/
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  1. [usually singular] scourge (of somebody/something) (formal) a person or thing that causes trouble, difficulty or mental pain
    • the scourge of war/disease/poverty
    • Inflation was the scourge of the 1970s.
    Extra Examples
    • He is well-known as a scourge of the Establishment.
    • The Green Party sees the motor car as a scourge on society.
    • freeing the world from the scourge of nuclear weapons
    • taking action against the growing scourge of hunger
  2. a whip used to punish people in the past
    3. Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French escorge (noun), escorgier (verb), from Latin ex- ‘thoroughly’ + corrigia ‘thong, whip’.

scourge

verb
/skɜːdʒ/
/skɜːrdʒ/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they scourge
/skɜːdʒ/
/skɜːrdʒ/
he / she / it scourges
/ˈskɜːdʒɪz/
/ˈskɜːrdʒɪz/
past simple scourged
/skɜːdʒd/
/skɜːrdʒd/
past participle scourged
/skɜːdʒd/
/skɜːrdʒd/
-ing form scourging
/ˈskɜːdʒɪŋ/
/ˈskɜːrdʒɪŋ/
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  1. [usually passive] scourge somebody (literary) to cause trouble, difficulty or mental pain to somebody
    • He lay awake, scourged by his conscience.
  2. scourge somebody (old use) to hit somebody with a scourge synonym whip
    3. Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French escorge (noun), escorgier (verb), from Latin ex- ‘thoroughly’ + corrigia ‘thong, whip’.
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