Scourge

Noun

 * 1)  A persistent pest, illness, or source of trouble, (figurative) cause of suffering to people.
 * Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere.
 * 1) A whip often of leather.
 * He flogged him with a scourge.

Verb

 * 1) To strike with a scourge.

Adjectives for Scourge
national; appointed; dreadful; appalling; inexorable; lifted;  controversial;  fatal; chastening; penitential; dreaded.

Verbs for Scourge
afflict with—;   anticipate—;  bemoan—; check—; curb—; cure of—; deplore—; halt —; incur—; lift—; overcome—; prevent—; stamp out—; succumb to—; —befalls; —besets; —destroys; —exterminates; —plagues; —ravishes; —routs; —settles on; —spreads; —wipes out.

Thesaurus
adversity, afflict, affliction, ambulatory plague, bane, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, black death, black plague, blacksnake, blister, bubonic plague, buffet, bugbear, bullwhack, bullwhip, burden, calamity, cane, castigate, castigation, cat, cellulocutaneous plague, chastening, chastise, chastisement, club, condign punishment, correction, cowhide, crop, crushing burden, cudgel, curse, cut, death, defervescing plague, depredate, desecrate, deserts, desolate, despoil, destruction, devastate, disciplinary measures, discipline, disease, drub, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, evil, excoriate, ferule, flagellate, flagellum, flail, flay, flog, frail, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, glandular plague, grievance, harm, hemorrhagic plague, hide, hit, horsewhip, infliction, judgment, judicial punishment, knout, kurbash, lace, larval plague, lash, lather, lay on, misery, misfortune, murrain, nemesis, open wound, pains, pains and punishments, pandemia, pandemic, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty, penology, pest, pesthole, pestilence, pillage, pistol-whip, plague, plague spot, pneumonic plague, pommel, premonitory plague, pummel, punish, punishment, punition, quirt, rawhide, razor strap, retribution, retributive justice, running sore, sack, scarify, scathe, scorch, septicemic plague, siderating plague, sjambok, slash, smite, spank, spoliate, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thong, thorn, thrash, thump, torment, trounce, truncheon, tuberculosis, vexation, visitation, wallop, waste, wear out, well-deserved punishment, whale, what-for, whip, whiplash, white plague, whop, woe

Etymology
From Old French escorgier:, from Vulgar Latin excorrigiāre, consisting of ex- + corrigia:

Noun

 * Arabic: وباء, بلوى
 * Armenian:
 * Danish: svøbe
 * Finnish: ,
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 * Arabic: سوط
 * Danish: svøbe
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 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Russian:, плеть
 * Spanish: flagelo


 * German: Geißel
 * : פגע

Verb

 * Danish:
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 * Indonesian: mencambuki


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