Scourge Definition

skûrj
scourged, scourges, scourging
noun
scourges
A whip or other instrument for flogging.
Webster's New World
Any cause of serious trouble or affliction.
The scourge of war.
Webster's New World
Any means of inflicting severe punishment, suffering, or vengeance.
Webster's New World
A small whip used to inflict punishment.
American Heritage

(uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.

Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere.
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verb
scourged, scourges, scourging
To afflict with severe or widespread suffering and devastation; ravage.
American Heritage
To punish, chastise, or afflict severely.
Webster's New World
To whip or flog.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Scourge

Noun

Singular:
scourge
Plural:
scourges

Origin of Scourge

  • Middle English from Anglo-Norman escorge from Old French escorgier to whip from Vulgar Latin excorrigiāre Latin ex- intensive pref. ex– Latin corrigia thong (probably of Celtic origin)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French escorgier (“to whip"), from Vulgar Latin excorrigere, consisting of ex- + Latin corrigo

    From Wiktionary

Scourge Sentence Examples

  • Among the rodents the hamster and the field-mouse are a scourge to agriculture.

  • Sixty strokes of an ox-hide scourge were awarded for a brutal assault on a superior, both being amelu.

  • Florus actually dared to scourge and crucify Jews who belonged to the Roman order of knights.

  • The various species of rapacious animals are disappearing, together with the colonies of marmots; the insectivores are also becoming scarce in consequence of the destruction of insects; while vermin, such as the suslik, or pouched marmot (Spermophilus), and the destructive insects which are a scourge to agriculture, become a real plague.

  • Next came the successful attempt to deal with the fatal cattle scourge known as anthrax.

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