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scourgesnounpl. of scourge a long thin or flexible tool for strikingthe museum display included a scourge, thumbscrews, and other notorious instruments of torture floggers, lashes, switches, whips birches, blacksnakes, bullwhips, cat-o'-nine-tails, cowhides, crops, hickories, knouts, quirts, rattans, rawhides, strapsbastinadoes(or bastinades), batons, bats, billies, billy clubs, bludgeons, canes, clubs, cudgels, flails, nightsticks, staffs(or staves) 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 afflictions, banes, curses, nemeses hexes, hoodoos, jinxesdangers, hazards, menaces, perils, risks, threats, troublesbooby traps, catches, pitfalls, snags benefits, blessings, boons, felicities, godsends, goods, mannas, windfalls advantages, aids, assistances, gifts, help, reliefs, supportscomforts, consolations, solacesdelights, joys, pleasuresarmors, defenses, guards, protections, safeguards, safeties, securities, shields to bring destruction to (something) through violent actionbarbarians scourged the countryside, leaving village after village burned to the ground destroys, devastates, ravages, ruins despoils, forays, harries, loots, marauds, pillages, plunders, sacks, stripsannihilates, desolates, eradicates, expunges, extinguishes, extirpates, nukes, obliterates, rubs out, shatters, smashes, totals, vaporizes, wastes, wipes out, wracks, wrecksdecimates, mowsdemolishes, razescrushes, overpowers, overruns, overthrows, overwhelms reconditions, recovers, redeems, rehabilitates, restoresfixes, mends, patches, repairs, revamps to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexiblescourge the tree with a whip to loosen the bark birches, cowhides, flagellates, flails, flogs, hides, horsewhips, lashes, leathers, rawhides, slashes, switches, tans, thrashes, whales, whips knouts, quirts, strapscutsflicks, touches upblackjacks, canes, clubs, cudgels, fustigatespistol-whipsbangs, bops, boxes, busts, claps, clips, clobbers, clouts, cracks, cuffs, hits, knocks, lams, pastes, punches, slaps, slugs, smacks, smites, socks, spanks, swats, swipes, thwacks, wallops, whacksbashes, bastes, bats, batters, beats, belabors, belts, bludgeons, buffets, bungs, drubs, fibs(British), hammers, laces, lambastes(or lambasts), lathers, licks, mangles, mauls, paddles, pelts, pommels, pounds, pummels, roughs, slates, slogs, threshes, thumps, tromps, whops(or whaps), whups, works over |