All scourge synonyms
scourge
S s verb scourge
- whacked β exhausted; tired out.
- cudgelled β a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- flay β to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
- flagellate β to whip; scourge; flog; lash.
- ferule β a ring or cap, usually of metal, put around the end of a post, cane, or the like, to prevent splitting.
- caning β a beating with a cane as a punishment
- whaling β the work or industry of capturing and rendering whales; whale fishing.
- bludgeoned β a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- disciplining β Present participle of discipline.
- lambaste β to beat or whip severely.
- larrup β to beat or thrash.
- cudgelling β a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- disciplined β having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
- blistered β a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- defrock β If a priest is defrocked, he is forced to stop being a priest because of bad behaviour.
- defrocked β Simple past tense and past participle of defrock.
- curse β If you curse, you use rude or offensive language, usually because you are angry about something.
- lean on β to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- whomp β a loud, heavy blow, slap, bang, or the like: He fell with an awful whomp.
- larruping β very; exceedingly: That was a larruping good meal.
- flog β to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.
- horsewhipping β Present participle of horsewhip.
- bludgeoning β a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- whop β to strike forcibly.
- whacking β large.
- cudgeled β a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- exprobate β (obsolete) To exprobrate.
- castigate β If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
- leathering β Present participle of leather.
- horsewhip β a whip for controlling horses.
- flax β any plant of the genus Linum, especially L. usitatissimum, a slender, erect, annual plant having narrow, lance-shaped leaves and blue flowers, cultivated for its fiber and seeds.
- birch β A birch or a birch tree is a type of tall tree with thin branches.
noun scourge
- fungi β a taxonomic kingdom, or in some classification schemes a division of the kingdom Plantae, comprising all the fungus groups and sometimes also the slime molds.
- affliction β An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
- fungus β any of a diverse group of eukaryotic single-celled or multinucleate organisms that live by decomposing and absorbing the organic material in which they grow, comprising the mushrooms, molds, mildews, smuts, rusts, and yeasts, and classified in the kingdom Fungi or, in some classification systems, in the division Fungi (Thallophyta) of the kingdom Plantae.
- epidemic β A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
- knout β a whip with a lash of leather thongs, formerly used in Russia for flogging criminals.
- knouts β a whip with a lash of leather thongs, formerly used in Russia for flogging criminals.
- catastrophe β A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
- meltdown β network meltdown
- hydra β A minute freshwater coelenterate with a stalklike tubular body and a ring of tentacles around the mouth.
- infestation β the act of infesting; state of being infested.
- blue ruin β (Slang) (now archaic) Low-end gin, usually home-made.
- canker β A canker is something evil that spreads and affects things or people.
- excruciation β Some excruciating pain.
- nemesis β something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.: The performance test proved to be my nemesis.
- bullwhip β A bullwhip is a very long, heavy whip.
- badgerer β One who badgers.