Definitionen
1.NounA whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash."He flogged him with a scourge."
2.NounA person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war."Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere."
3.NounA person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
4.NounA source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war."Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere."
5.VerbTo strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun etymology 1 sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.
6.VerbTo drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
7.VerbTo punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).
8.VerbTo punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
9.VerbTo cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
10.VerbOf a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).