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scourgenoun a long thin or flexible tool for strikingthe museum display included a scourge, thumbscrews, and other notorious instruments of torture flogger, lash, switch, whip birch, blacksnake, bullwhip, cat-o'-nine-tails, cowhide, crop, hickory, knout, quirt, rattan, rawhide, strapbastinado(or bastinade), bat, baton, billy, billy club, bludgeon, cane, club, cudgel, flail, nightstick, staff one who inflicts punishment in return for an injury or offensethe attorney general, who just happens to be a candidate for governor, is a self-proclaimed scourge of organized crime a source of harm or misfortunethe sheer ubiquity of food is proving to be the scourge of humanity, as evidenced by the obesity epidemic affliction, bane, curse, nemesis hex, hoodoo, jinxdanger, hazard, menace, peril, risk, threat, troublebooby trap, catch, pitfall, snag benefit, blessing, boon, felicity, godsend, good, manna, windfall advantage, aid, assistance, gift, help, relief, supportcomfort, consolation, solacedelight, joy, pleasurearmor, defense, guard, protection, safeguard, safety, security, shield to bring destruction to (something) through violent actionbarbarians scourged the countryside, leaving village after village burned to the ground destroy, devastate, ravage, ruin despoil, foray, harry, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, sack, stripannihilate, desolate, eradicate, expunge, extinguish, extirpate, nuke, obliterate, rub out, shatter, smash, total, vaporize, waste, wipe out, wrack, wreckdecimate, mowdemolish, razecrush, overpower, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm recondition, recover, redeem, rehabilitate, restorefix, mend, patch, repair, revamp to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexiblescourge the tree with a whip to loosen the bark birch, cowhide, flagellate, flail, flog, hide, horsewhip, lash, leather, rawhide, slash, switch, tan, thrash, whale, whip knout, quirt, strapcutflick, touch upblackjack, cane, club, cudgel, fustigatepistol-whipbang, bop, box, bust, clap, clip, clobber, clout, crack, cuff, hit, knock, lam, paste, punch, slap, slug, smack, smite, sock, spank, swat, swipe, thwack, wallop, whackbash, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belt, bludgeon, buffet, bung, drub, fib(British), hammer, lace, lambaste(or lambast), lather, lick, mangle, maul, paddle, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, rough, slate, slog, thresh, thump, tromp, whop(or whap), whup, work over in the 13th century |