MEANING
1. To beat someone with a whip or similar implement.
2. A whip or similar instrument used to inflict punishment.
3. Something that causes widespread or severe suffering.
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Words that belong together
- scourge a prisoner
- scourged with a lash
On the page
The order to scourge the prisoner divided the guards.
He had been scourged with a lash before the questioning began.
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Word forms
- Base
- scourge
- Past tense
- scourged
- Past participle
- scourged
- Present participle
- scourging
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- scourge
- Present continuous
- am/is/are scourging
- Present perfect
- have/has scourged
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been scourging
- Past
- scourged
- Past continuous
- was/were scourging
- Past perfect
- had scourged
- Past perfect continuous
- had been scourging
- Future
- will scourge
- Future continuous
- will be scourging
- Future perfect
- will have scourged
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been scourging
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: scourge; scourges; scourged; scourged; scourging Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: scourges.
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