SCOURGE
\skˈɜːd͡ʒ], \skˈɜːdʒ], \s_k_ˈɜː_dʒ]\
Definitions of SCOURGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
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whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"
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a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood"
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punish severely; excoriate
By Princeton University
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devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
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whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"
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a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.
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Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.
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To whip severely; to lash.
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To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.
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To harass or afflict severely.
By Oddity Software
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A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.
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Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.
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To whip severely; to lash.
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To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.
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To harass or afflict severely.
By Noah Webster.
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A whip used to inflict punishment; a means to inflict punishment or cause suffering; hence, severe punishment; a cause of affliction; as, the scourge of Spanish influenza.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A whip made of leather thongs: an instrument of punishment: a punishment: means of punishment.
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To whip severely: to punish in order to correct.
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SCOURGER.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [French, Italian, Latin] A lash; a strap or cord; especially, one used to inflict pain or punishment; a whip hence, a punishment, or a means of inflicting punishment one who afflicts, harasses, or destroys;-continued evil or calamity; a pestilence; plague; instrument of divine punishment;-a whip for a top.
