scourge
verb/skɜːdʒ/
/skɜːrdʒ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they scourge | /skɜːdʒ/ /skɜːrdʒ/ |
| he / she / it scourges | /ˈskɜːdʒɪz/ /ˈskɜːrdʒɪz/ |
| past simple scourged | /skɜːdʒd/ /skɜːrdʒd/ |
| past participle scourged | /skɜːdʒd/ /skɜːrdʒd/ |
| -ing form scourging | /ˈskɜːdʒɪŋ/ /ˈskɜːrdʒɪŋ/ |
- [usually passive] scourge somebody (literary) to cause trouble, difficulty or mental pain to somebody
- He lay awake, scourged by his conscience.
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- scourge somebody (old use) to hit somebody with a scourge synonym whip
Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French escorge (noun), escorgier (verb), from Latin ex- ‘thoroughly’ + corrigia ‘thong, whip’.
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