Scourge | Mean of scourge in English Dictionary
/ˈskɚʤ/
- Noun
- someone or something that causes a great amount of trouble or suffering
- a city ravaged by the scourge of unemployment/poverty
- The disease continues to be a scourge in the developing world.
- Spelling is the scourge of learners of English. [=spelling is very difficult for people who are learning English]
- a whip that was used to punish people in the past
- Verb
- to cause a lot of trouble or suffering for (someone or something)
- a neighborhood scourged by crime
- to hit (someone) with a whip as punishment
- The prisoner was scourged with a whip.
Những từ liên quan với SCOURGE
correction, pestilence, cane, affliction, bane, afflict, curse, penalty, misfortune, pest, excoriate, punishment, castigate