Scourge
[skɜːdʒ] or [skɝdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor).
(verb.) punish severely; excoriate.
Typed by Eugenia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.
(n.) Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.
(n.) To whip severely; to lash.
(n.) To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.
(n.) To harass or afflict severely.
Inputed by Jarvis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Whip, lash, thong, strap, cowhide.[2]. Punishment, affliction, curse, pest, bane, plague, annoyance, infliction, nuisance.
v. a. [1]. Lash, whip.[2]. Punish, chastise, chasten.
Typed by Chloe
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Punishment, bane, curse, undoing, visitation
ANT:Blessing, redemption, saving, reward, benefaction
Checker: Sigmund
Definition
n. a whip made of leather thongs: an instrument of punishment: a punishment: means of punishment.—v.t. to whip severely: to punish in order to correct.—n. Scour′ger a flagellant.
Editor: Randolph
Examples
- Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have a tough hide, that will bear knife or scourge as well as any boar's hide in my herd. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Get thy wounds healed, purvey thee a better horse, and it may be I will hold it worth my while to scourge out of thee this boyish spirit of bravado. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I was the scourge of both, and that is referable to her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Warm from illuminations, and music, and thronging thousands, thoroughly lashed up by a new scourge, I defied spectra. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He may strike the head from me--he may scourge me--he may load me with irons--but henceforth he shall never compel me either to love or to obey him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- 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.
- If I had--killed your--mother with my own hand--I should not deserve such a scourging to the bone as this. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Typist: Psyche