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Synonyms for scourge
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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. scourge

    Strike is the word for a single blow; to beat is to strike repeatedly, as a bird beats the air with its wings. Others of the above words describe the manner of beating, as bastinado, to beat on the soles of the feet; belabor, to inflict a comprehensive and exhaustive beating; cudgel, to beat with a stick; thrash, as wheat was beaten out with the old hand-flail; to pound (akin to Latin pondus, a weight) is to beat with a heavy, and pommel with a blunt, instrument. To batter and to bruise refer to the results of beating; that is battered which is broken or defaced by repeated blows on the surface (compare synonyms for SHATTER); that is bruised which has suffered even one severe contusion. The metaphorical sense of beat, however, so far preponderates that one may be very badly bruised and battered, and yet not be said to be beaten, unless he has got the worst of the beating. To beat a combatant is to disable or dishearten him for further fighting. Hence beat becomes the synonym for every word which implies getting the advantage of another. Compare CONQUER.

    Almost all antonyms in this class are passive, and can be formed indefinitely from the conquering words by the use of the auxiliary be; as, be beaten, be defeated, be conquered, etc.

    Synonyms:
    bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, bruise, castigate, chastise, conquer, cudgel, defeat, flog, overcome, pommel, pound, smite, spank, strike, surpass, switch, thrash, vanquish, whip, worst

    Antonyms:
    fail, fall, get the worst of, go down, go under, surrender

    Preposition:
    Beat with a stick over the head; beat by a trick; out of town; beat to the ground; into submission.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. scourge

    Synonyms:
    punishment, bane, curse, undoing, visitation

    Antonyms:
    blessing, redemption, saving, reward, benefaction

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. scourge, flagellumnoun

    a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)

    Synonyms:
    threat, curse, nemesis, terror, bane, flagellum

  2. bane, curse, scourge, nemesisnoun

    something causing misery or death

    "the bane of my life"

    Synonyms:
    whammy, expletive, condemnation, swearing, curse word, flagellum, jinx, oath, execration, cuss, threat, curse, swearword, nemesis, bane, hex, torment, terror

  3. terror, scourge, threatverb

    a person who inspires fear or dread

    "he was the terror of the neighborhood"

    Synonyms:
    threat, flagellum, little terror, menace, bane, panic, brat, affright, holy terror, terror, nemesis, curse

  4. scourgeverb

    punish severely; excoriate

    Synonyms:
    devastate, flagellate, ravage, lay waste to, waste, desolate

  5. flagellate, scourgeverb

    whip

    "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"

    Synonyms:
    devastate, flagellate, lay waste to, waste, ravage, desolate

  6. lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourgeverb

    cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

    "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

    Synonyms:
    waste, harry, emaciate, flagellate, abandon, blow, forsake, run off, devastate, desert, neutralise, pine away, neutralize, desolate, consume, macerate, ware, depopulate, languish, liquidate, squander, ravage, do in, rot, knock off, lay waste to

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. scourgenoun

    Synonyms:
    whip, lash, thong, strap, cowhide

  2. scourgenoun

    Synonyms:
    punishment, affliction, curse, pest, bane, plague, annoyance, infliction, nuisance

  3. scourgeverb

    Synonyms:
    lash, whip

  4. scourgeverb

    Synonyms:
    punish, chastise, chasten

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. scourgenoun

    Synonyms:
    affliction, infliction, bane, punishment

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "scourge":

    plague, evil, blight, bane, curse, nitrogen, menace, disaster, affliction, epidemic

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. scourge

    Synonyms:
    Epidemic (noun)

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How to use scourge in a sentence?

  1. Randy Grossman:

    We're going to continue to employ the strategy that we've been employing, which is aggressive prosecutions and prevention, we are very focused on making sure that we deter crimes at the border, including the scourge of fentanyl trafficking that's killing our residents, as well as preventing deaths in our community by getting into the community through an abundance of outreach programs in partnership with our law enforcement agency partners.

  2. Darrell Steinberg:

    The scourge of gun violence continues to be a crisis in our country, and we must resolve to bring an end to this carnage.

  3. Bennie Thompson:

    ( F) ew Americans know much about what exactly the federal government is doing to prevent domestic terrorism, there's an urgent need for robust, centralized, and transparent federal data to inform counterterrorism policymaking -- and Americans deserve to know exactly how their government is allocating resources to understanding the confronting the scourge of domestic terrorism.

  4. Michael Enright:

    He didn’t just throw me under the bus; he threw the Kurds under the bus. They would never hurt a Westerner, i have no interest in turning my story into a movie. I am not writing a script. This is not about me. The emphasis should be this evil scourge called ISIS.

  5. Federal Communications Commission:

    We are making it clear that scamming consumers and — as we saw in this case — tricking them into buying products under false pretenses can not and will not go unchecked, that is why the Federal Communications Commission and state officials are standing together and taking strong action to protect the American public from the scourge of spoofed robocalls.


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