[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

scourge \scourge\, v. t. imp.  p. p. scourged; p. pr.  vb.
   n. scourging. from scourge, n.: cf. of. escorgier.
   1. to whip severely; to lash.
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            is it lawful for you to scourge a . . . roman?
                                                  --acts xxii.
                                                  25.
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   2. to punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for
      sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.
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            whom the lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth
            every son whom he receiveth.          --heb. xii. 6.
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   3. to harass or afflict severely.
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            to scourge and impoverish the people. --brougham.
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see also:
scourged scourging scourge 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

scourge \scourge\, n. f. escourg'ee, fr. l. excoriata sc.
   scutica a stripped off lash or whip, fr. excoriare to
   strip, to skin. see excoriate.
   1. a lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to
      inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or
      discipline; a whip.
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            up to coach then goes
            the observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.
                                                  --chapman.
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   2. hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or
      suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.
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            sharp scourges of adversity.          --chaucer.
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            what scourge for perjury
            can this dark monarchy afford false clarence?
                                                  --shak.
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see also:
excoriate 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

scourge
     n 1: a whip used to inflict punishment often used for pedantic
          humor syn: flagellum
     2: something causes misery or death; "the bane of my life"
        syn: bane, curse, nemesis
     3: a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of
        the neighborhood" syn: terror, threat
     v 1: punish severely; excoriate
     2: whip; "the religious fanatics flagellated themselves" syn:
        flagellate
     3: devastate or ravage; "the enemy lay waste to the countryside
        after the invasion" syn: lay waste to, waste, devastate,
         desolate, ravage
see also:
flagellum bane curse nemesis terror threat 
flagellate lay waste to waste devastate desolate 
ravage 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

154 moby thesaurus words for "scourge":
   adversity, afflict, affliction, ambulatory plague, bane, baste,
   bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, black death, black plague,
   blacksnake, blister, bubonic plague, buffet, bugbear, bullwhack,
   bullwhip, burden, calamity, cane, castigate, castigation, cat,
   cellulocutaneous plague, chastening, chastise, chastisement, club,
   condign punishment, correction, cowhide, crop, crushing burden,
   cudgel, curse, cut, death, defervescing plague, depredate,
   desecrate, deserts, desolate, despoil, destruction, devastate,
   disciplinary measures, discipline, disease, drub, epidemic,
   epiphytotic, epizootic, evil, excoriate, ferule, flagellate,
   flagellum, flail, flay, flog, frail, fustigate, give a whipping,
   give the stick, glandular plague, grievance, harm,
   hemorrhagic plague, hide, hit, horsewhip, infliction, judgment,
   judicial punishment, knout, kurbash, lace, larval plague, lash,
   lather, lay on, misery, misfortune, murrain, nemesis, open wound,
   pains, pains and punishments, pandemia, pandemic, pay, payment,
   penal retribution, penalty, penology, pest, pesthole, pestilence,
   pillage, pistol-whip, plague, plague spot, pneumonic plague,
   pommel, premonitory plague, pummel, punish, punishment, punition,
   quirt, rawhide, razor strap, retribution, retributive justice,
   running sore, sack, scarify, scathe, scorch, septicemic plague,
   siderating plague, sjambok, slash, smite, spank, spoliate, strap,
   stripe, swinge, switch, thong, thorn, thrash, thump, torment,
   trounce, truncheon, tuberculosis, vexation, visitation, wallop,
   waste, wear out, well-deserved punishment, whale, what-for, whip,
   whiplash, white plague, whop, woe

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