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scourgingverbpresent participle of scourge to bring destruction to (something) through violent actionbarbarians scourged the countryside, leaving village after village burned to the ground destroying, devastating, ravaging, ruining despoiling, foraying, harrying, looting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, sacking, strippingannihilating, desolating, eradicating, expunging, extinguishing, extirpating, nuking, obliterating, rubbing out, shattering, smashing, totaling(or totalling), vaporizing, wasting, wiping out, wracking, wreckingdecimating, mowingdemolishing, razingcrushing, overpowering, overrunning, overthrowing, overwhelming reconditioning, recovering, redeeming, rehabilitating, restoringfixing, mending, patching, repairing, revamping to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexiblescourge the tree with a whip to loosen the bark birching, cowhiding, flagellating, flailing, flogging, hiding, horsewhipping, lashing, leathering, rawhiding, slashing, switching, tanning, thrashing, whaling, whipping knouting, quirting, strappingcuttingflicking, touching upblackjacking, caning, clubbing, cudgeling(or cudgelling), fustigatingpistol-whippingbanging, bopping, boxing, busting, clapping, clipping, clobbering, clouting, cracking, cuffing, hitting, knocking, lamming, pasting, punching, slapping, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, spanking, swatting, swiping, thwacking, walloping, whackingbashing, basting, battering, batting, beating, belaboring, belting, bludgeoning, buffeting, bunging, drubbing, fibbing(British), hammering, lacing, lambasting, lathering, licking, mangling, mauling, paddling, pelting, pommeling(or pommelling), pounding, pummeling(also pummelling), roughing, slating, slogging, threshing, thumping, tromping, whopping(or whapping), whupping, working over |