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scourge
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- pronunciation:
- skuhrj
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb)
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a whip used to punish people.
- synonyms:
- knout, rod, strap, switch
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| definition 2: |
someone or something that inflicts punishment or causes suffering or destruction.
The unfortunate population had already undergone the scourge of a cholera epidemic.- synonyms:
- affliction, bane, pestilence
- similar words:
- blight, cancer, curse, enemy, malignancy, plague, rod
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| related words: |
butcher, canker, despair, disaster, epidemic, lash, pest, thorn, torment |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
scourges, scourging, scourged |
| definition 1: |
to flog with a scourge; whip.
- synonyms:
- flagellate, flog, whip
- similar words:
- beat, flail, lambaste, lash, strap, thrash
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| definition 2: |
to inflict punishment, suffering, or destruction upon.
- synonyms:
- afflict
- similar words:
- castigate, chasten, chastise, curse, discipline, plague, punish, torment, trouble
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| related words: |
afflict, belt, drub, grind, switch |
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| derivations: |
scourgingly (adv.), scourger (n.) |
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