Word Finder - scourge

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A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.

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Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere.

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A means to inflict such pain or destruction.

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A whip, often of leather.

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He flogged him with a scourge.

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To strike with a scourge; to flog.

Among the rodents the hamster and the field-mouse are a scourge to agriculture.

Sixty strokes of an ox-hide scourge were awarded for a brutal assault on a superior, both being amelu.

Florus actually dared to scourge and crucify Jews who belonged to the Roman order of knights.

The various species of rapacious animals are disappearing, together with the colonies of marmots; the insectivores are also becoming scarce in consequence of the destruction of insects; while vermin, such as the suslik, or pouched marmot (Spermophilus), and the destructive insects which are a scourge to agriculture, become a real plague.

Next came the successful attempt to deal with the fatal cattle scourge known as anthrax.

The scourge was eradicated.

It will require a team effort to defeat the scourge of terrorism.

In Africa, illicit trafficking in small and light arms had become a major scourge.

The country was also visited by a succession of famines and floods, and in 1348 the Black Death swept over Europe like a terrible scourge.

We will engage other nations to join in accelerating our efforts to finally eradicate this scourge.

For the second Bank Holiday running, police are mounting an operation across the county to tackle the scourge of drunken violence.

The Conference succeeded in placing the issue - which the Secretary-General has called a " global scourge " - on the international agenda.

Waste (not) by Ethical Consumer Waste is a modern scourge.

Of all the celebrated accomplishments of science, I think none is more significant than the end of certain diseases, especially the scourge of polio.

Dictators, in short, are the scourge of the earth.

The efforts to subdue or restrain these marauders proved fruitless, till Augustus Cleveland won them by mild measures, and successfully made over the protection of the district to the very hill people who a few years before had been its scourge.

A scourge which so seriously menaced the very existence of the silkworm in the world necessarily attracted a great amount of attention.

Represented as ithyphallic, with two tall plumes on his head, the right arm upraised and bearing a scourge.

By teaming up with top research institutes, ORBIS is working to eliminate this ancient scourge which has blinded people for centuries.

It is among the Invertebrata that epidemics of destruction are referred to, though we should bear in mind that it is only the difference in numerical proportion that prevents our speaking of an epidemic of elephants or of rabbits, though we use the term when speaking of blight insects; there is little consistency in the matter, as it is usual to speak of an invasion or scourge of locusts, caterpillars, &c. Insect injuries are very varied in degree and in kind.

Obviously, outlawing Coke cans and tampon applicators is the next step in protecting America 's youth from the scourge of pot.

Yes, the scourge of the lawn is also a powerful herb.

Squash bugs (Anasa tristis) are the scourge of home vegetable growers, and one practical solution for avoiding damaged plants is by getting rid of the critters organically.

My beautiful bride labored to the end, administrating to the fallen and the flu stricken souls of our town until she too, fell to the scourge of this most dreaded disease.

Since then yellow fever has ceased to be a scourge in Cuba.

Charles entered Florence on the 17th of November 1494, and the citizens' fears evaporated in jests on the puny exterior of the "threatened scourge."

But neither Sheridan nor Fox was capable of that sustained and overflowing indignation at outraged justice and oppressed humanity, that consuming moral fire, which burst forth again and again from the chief manager of the impeachment, with such scorching might as drove even the cool and intrepid Hastings beyond all self-control, and made him cry out with protests and exclamations like a criminal writhing under the scourge.

Taking a short holiday after freeing this august establishment from the scourge of an international jewel thief.

As a slave, his religion was mere emotionalism, which served to break the monotony of the cruel scourge of slavery.

What's the point of having the Scourge of God if you can defeat his divine purpose with a little rubber johnny?

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Or, they were the scourge of the earth.

For centuries scurvy had been the scourge of sailors on long voyages.

His country was also encouraged by the attention being given to the scourge of illicit trafficking in small arms.

The scourge of global terrorism requires the strength of a global response.

In the year 1800 the scourge of war, with famine in its wake, was raging over Europe.

We 're just asking that they play their part in removing the scourge of fuel poverty from some of Scotland 's most vulnerable households.

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Take on the role of Batman as you fight crime in the streets of Gotham and avenge the deaths of your parents as you save the citizens of the city from the scourge of crime.

This was the last and most tremendous visitation of the Assyrian scourge.

In reality, it is secular fundamentalism which has become the scourge of our time.

To combat the scourge of terrorism Member States have also agreed to expand the role of the European Union.

The nations of the world are banding together to eliminate the terrorism scourge.

Don't succumb to the scourge Of the sexual urge, Or you'll cause a most terrible stink!

Infection followed operations almost as a matter of course and the dread scourge 'hospital gangrene ' spread from one ward to another like wildfire.

Lacey became the scourge of the very establishment he was a prominent member of.

Do n't succumb to the scourge Of the sexual urge, Or you'll cause a most terrible stink !

At the same time the existence of the Pindari state was not only dangerous to the British, as being a warlike power always ready to turn against them, but it was a scourge to India itself.

The multiplication of thongs for purposes of flogging is found in the old Roman flagellum, a scourge, which had sometimes three thongs with bone or bronze knots fastened to them.

For about 46 years they were the scourge of the western half of Asia Minor, ravaging the country, as allies of one or other of the warring princes, without any serious check, until Attalus I., king of Pergamum (241-197), inflicted several severe defeats upon them, and about 232 B.C. forced them to settle permanently in the region to which they gave their name.