[responsivevoice]scourge [/responsivevoice] [ skurj ]
The word of the day is ‘scourge’.
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence and the word is a verb too, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form and Yes, the past form of the verb is scourged.
It means:
1. Torment
2. Cause great suffering to
3. Plague
4. Beat, punish, often physically
1. Our people did scourge him severely
2. Political methods used to scourge and oppress workers
3. Florus actually dared to scourge and crucify Jews who belonged to the Roman order of knights.
4. Among the rodents, the hamster and the field-mouse are a scourge to agriculture.
5. It will require a team effort to defeat the scourge of terrorism.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
curse, pest, terror, affliction, bane, correction, infliction, misfortune, penalty, pestilence, punishment, visitation, whip, horsewhip, lash, strap, birch, flail, rawhide, cat-o’-nine-tails, knout, flagellum, quirt, plague, menace, evil, misfortune, burden, cross to bear, thorn in one’s flesh/side, bitter pill, trial, nuisance, torment, torture, misery, suffering, blight, canker, afflict, cane, castigate, chastise, excoriate, flail, flog, harass, lambaste, penalize, scathe, scorch, terrorize, thrash, trounce, wallop, flog, flagellate, cause suffering to, oppress, devastate, punish, etc.
blessing, godsend, aid, assist, comfort, compliment, fail, forgive,help, laud, lose, please, praise, surrender, guard, protect
Quotation:
It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.
Michael Specter
Social Example:
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