English-Thai Dictionary

scourge

N ผู้ ทำให้เกิด หายนะ  ผู้ ทรมาน ผู้อื่น  ผู้ ทำให้เกิด ความทุกข์ทรมาน  สิ่ง หายนะ  tormentor phu-tam-hai-koed-hai-ya-na

 

scourge

N หายนะ  curse harass plague hai-ya-na

 

scourge

N แส้  หวาย  cord stick strap whip sea

 

scourge

VT หวด  เฆี่ยน  โบย  whip hit hud

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCOURGE

n.skurj. [L. corriggia, from corrigo, to straighten. ] 1. To whip; a lash consisting of a strap or cord; an instrument of punishment or discipline.
A scourge of small cords. John 2:15.
2. A punishment; vindictive affliction.
Famine and plague are sent as scourges for amendment.
3. He or that which greatly afflicts, harasses or destroys; particularly, any continued evil or calamity. Attila was called the scourge of God, for the miseries he inflicted in his conquests. Slavery is a terrible scourge.
4. A whip for a top.

 

SCOURGE

v.t.skurj. 1. To whip severely; to lash.
It is lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman? Acts 22:25.
2. To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.
He will scourge us for our iniquities, and will have mercy again.
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Hebrews 12:6.
3. To afflict greatly; to harass, torment or injure.

 

SCOURGED

pp. Whipped; lashed; punished severely; harassed.

 

SCOURGER

n.One that scourges or punishes; one that afflicts severely.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SCOURGE

Scourge, n. Etym: [F. escourgée, fr. L. excoriata (sc. scutica ) a stripped off (lash or whip ), fr. excoriate to strip, to skin. See Excoriate. ]

 

1. A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip. Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins. Chapman.

 

2. Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment. Sharp scourges of adversity. Chaucer. What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence Shak.

 

SCOURGE

Scourge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scourged; p. pr. & vb. n. Scourging. ]Etym: [From Scourge, n.: cf. OF. escorgier.]

 

1. To whip severely; to lash. is it lawful for you to scourge a... Roman Acts xxii. 25.

 

2. To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Heb. xii. 6.

 

3. To harass or afflict severely. To scourge and impoverish the people. Brougham.

 

SCOURGER

SCOURGER Scour "ger, n.

 

Defn: One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely. The West must own the scourger of the world. Byron.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

scourge

scourge |skərj skərʤ | ▶noun 1 historical a whip used as an instrument of punishment. 2 a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering: the scourge of mass unemployment. ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 historical whip (someone ) as a punishment. 2 cause great suffering to: political methods used to scourge and oppress workers. DERIVATIVES scourg er noun ( historical )ORIGIN Middle English: shortening of Old French escorge (noun ), escorgier (verb ), from Latin ex- ‘thoroughly ’ + corrigia ‘thong, whip. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

scourge

scourge |skəːdʒ | ▶noun 1 historical a whip used as an instrument of punishment. 2 a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering: the scourge of mass unemployment. ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 historical whip (someone ) as a punishment. 2 cause great suffering to: political methods used to scourge and oppress workers. DERIVATIVES scourger noun ( historical )ORIGIN Middle English: shortening of Old French escorge (noun ), escorgier (verb ), from Latin ex- ‘thoroughly ’ + corrigia ‘thong, whip ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

scourge

scourge noun 1 historical he was beaten with a scourge: whip, horsewhip, lash, strap, birch, switch, bullwhip, rawhide; historical cat-o'-nine-tails. 2 inflation was the scourge of the mid-1970s: affliction, bane, curse, plague, menace, evil, misfortune, burden, cross to bear; blight, cancer, canker. ANTONYMS blessing, godsend. ▶verb 1 historical he was publicly scourged: flog, whip, beat, horsewhip, lash, flagellate, strap, birch, cane, thrash, belt, leather; informal tan someone's hide, take a strap to. 2 a disease that scourged North America: afflict, plague, torment, torture, curse, oppress, burden, bedevil, beset.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

scourge

scourge noun 1 historical he was beaten with a scourge: whip, horsewhip, lash, strap, birch, switch, flail; N. Amer. bullwhip, rawhide; historical cat-o'-nine-tails, knout; rare flagellum, quirt, blacksnake. 2 inflation was the scourge of the mid-1970s | the scourge of war: affliction, bane, curse, plague, menace, evil, misfortune, burden, cross to bear, thorn in one's flesh /side, bitter pill, trial, nuisance, pest; torment, torture, misery, suffering; blight, cancer, canker; punishment, penalty, visitation. ANTONYMS blessing, godsend. ▶verb 1 historical he was publicly scourged: flog, whip, beat, horsewhip, lash, flagellate, flail, strap, birch, cane, thrash, belt, leather; N. Amer. bullwhip; informal give someone a hiding, tan someone's hide, lather, take a strap to, beat the living daylights out of; N. Amer. informal whale; archaic switch, stripe, thong; rare quirt. 2 scurvy was a disease which scourged the English for centuries: afflict, plague, torment, torture, curse, cause suffering to, oppress, burden, bedevil, beset; devastate; punish.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

scourge

scourge /skəː r dʒ /名詞 C 1 多大な災難 [苦難 ] (を引き起こすもの [事件, 人 ]), 天罰, たたり .2 むち .動詞 他動詞 1 〈場所 人々 〉に大きな被害を与える, …を苦難に落とし入れる .2 (昔の慣習 罰として )〈人 〉をむち打つ ; 〈人 〉を (厳しく )罰する, 懲らしめる .