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Definition of scourge:

  • (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
  • (noun) something causes misery or death; "the bane of my life"
  • (noun) a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood"
  • (verb) punish severely; excoriate

Sentence Examples:

Judgment it was which held the scourge.

Women were scourged publicly through the streets.

Noble landscapes were being scourged by demons.

The Vestal scourged must be entirely nude.

Lincoln was down with the same scourge.

No other way could he escape the scourge.

No other way could I escape the scourge.

Another scourge came in the form of ants.

Discipline must be; the scourge is deemed due.

I well deserved the scourging I have got!

Here we have hitherto escaped the terrible scourge.

Fine climates are continually exposed to destructive scourges.

What else is "plague" than "blow" or "scourge"?

He bound together a scourge of small cords.

They can only be a scourge to society.

Here you have hitherto escaped the terrible scourge.

He said, whisking a scourge before my face.

A scourge is a scourge at one end only.

The knotted scourge precedes the fatal tree.

They will mock Him and scourge Him.

Only the man can withstand the scourge.

He scourged me with contempt and fearful words.

They will wear hair shirts and scourge themselves.

Why did the scourge come upon the camp?

Let me scourge them from our holy place.

My scourge is sharp, my hand is firm!

"The scourge awakes," one of the men said.

Then both parties are publicly scourged to death.

Saw we not Henry scourged at Becket's shrine?

The poor beings were chained, whipped and scourged.

And a scourging was administered in this wise.

The settlement opposite alone had escaped the scourge.

This awful scourge merits a word of notice.

Nothing more distressing you'll meet amongst desert scourges.

I should think it would remain a constant scourge.

Our vices are made the whips to scourge us.

A few are international, like the scourge of war.

Then came another scourge like molten lead upon him.

Patriotism had been in history a scourge of mankind.

It is a scourge all over the apple-growing district.

I am worthy only to be scourged and punished.

"We have to submit to these little social scourges."

"Peace is a great blessing; war a dreadful scourge."

The scourging should have brought you to your senses.

Again a wave of angry shame would scourge him.

Did one week's scourging seam my side like that?

Your great scourge would break that little ankle.

Of course, the scourge diminishes from that day.

Look, how blood-red the scourge-like star is shining!

Leave talking to me of your rods and your scourges!

To this, the prisoner was bound for scourging.

What has saved London from a great scourge?

With what new weapon would she scourge me?

Whips to scourge us are made of our pleasant vices.

To mortal man how dread a scourge is love!

The chronic diarrhea became the scourge of the army.

Jeanne became, indeed, a veritable scourge to their affections.

The house stood solitary in that scourge of desolation.

Ivan's scourge is not exactly an article of faith.

At last, Heaven delivered our country from its scourge.

Of truth the patrons and of vice the scourge.

After that I shall cease to scourge the public.

The alcohol habit is a concentration of all scourges.

And yet it is the scourge of the race.

He saw his people beaten and scourged and starved.

Those two animals prove the Sumatran's greatest scourge.

The voice was like a scourge falling on bare flesh.

The castle was not exempt from the scourge.

They had no need to fly or fear the scourge.

A leader is wanted to awake and scourge the people.

The scourge shall come down upon you like a wave.

Shall we hold our backs to be scourged like children?

Is war less a scourge than riot is a calamity?

Foul water is a scourge and a messenger of death.

He now produces his whip or scourge for souls.

Search his pockets and you will find a scourge.

A torment and scourge they were wherever they appeared.

The water was their scourge; it became their defense.

Am I to be the scourge to lash her to obedience?

The village escaped the next visitation of the scourge.

The scourge was being weighed in a hair-fine balance.

That Beatrix will escape the scourge is simply impossible.

Fortunately the house of John Shakespeare escaped the scourge.

Then came the great scourge of the Saxon invasion.

The scourging did not end the acts of humiliation.

What was this scourge, this plague, this contagious disease?

The penalty was scourging, and frequently fine and exile.

And he saw the Man whom they were scourging.

The man she destroyed was a scourge to humanity.

You must scourge me till I have as many as you.

Are there no fools whose backs demand the scourge?

The scourge of the Iroquois was again upon the land.

He might scourge or put him to death at pleasure.

From one scourge of that climate, we were fortunately exempted.

Men and women were seized and scourged; some were slain.

Good men are again lifting the scourge of small cords.

He also showed his ability in fighting the pirate scourge.

Gambling has become a fearful scourge in our expanding country.

And he went down into the cave with a scourge.

Those wars have certainly been permitted as a just scourge.