scourge
/skɜrdʒ/
verb
- To cause great suffering or trouble to someone or something.
- A terrible drought scourged the land, leaving fields barren.
- War has scourged this region for decades.
- The disease scourged the village for months.
- To whip or beat severely as punishment.
- In some historical accounts, criminals were scourged in public squares.
- The cruel master would scourge his servants for the smallest mistake.
- The soldier was scourged for disobeying orders.
noun
- A person or thing that causes great trouble, suffering, or destruction.
- Social media misinformation has become a modern scourge.
- The dictator was a scourge to his own people.
- Locusts are a scourge that can destroy entire crops in a single day.
- A whip used for punishment in the past.
- The prisoner was beaten with a scourge made of leather strips.
- In ancient Rome, a scourge was often used to discipline slaves.
- The painting showed an angel holding a scourge of fire.
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