1 [usuallysing.] ~ (of sb/sth) (written) a person or thing that causes trouble or suffering:
the scourge of war / disease / poverty * Pirates are once again the scourge of the China Sea. * Inflation was the scourge of the 1970s.
2 a WHIP used to punish people in the past
verb [VN]
1 [usuallypassive] (literary) to cause trouble or suffering to sb:
He lay awake, scourged by his conscience.
2 (old use) to hit sb with a scourge
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is scourge a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, scourge is tagged as noun.
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