Scourged
[skɜ:dʒd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Scourge
Editor: Margaret
Examples
- Poor Rosamond's vagrant fancy had come back terribly scourged--meek enough to nestle under the old despised shelter. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is very painful, said Dorothea, feeling scourged. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Let her plant Medicis and build grand monuments over them to testify how gratefully she was wont to lick the hand that scourged her. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That was in the great days of Pablo when he scourged the country like a tartar and no fascist post was safe at night. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Editor: Margaret