kırbaç
Translations of scourge
VerbFrequency
kırbaçlamak
whip, lash, flog, colt, flagellate, scourge
kamçılamak
whip, whip up, lash, flagellate, flog, scourge
cezalandırmak
punish, penalize, castigate, cop it, correct, scourge
başına belâ olmak
couse trouble, hector about, hector around, scourge
zarar vermek
damage, do a disservice, do harm, encroach, flaw, scourge
Noun
belâ
trouble, scourge, evil, pest, nuisance, misfortune
kırbaç
whip, scourge, horsewhip, whipper, tawse, taws
dert
trouble, worry, suffering, pain, sorrow, scourge
kamçı
whip, scourge, horsewhip, whipper, colt, rawhide
felâket
disaster, catastrophe, misfortune, calamity, bane, scourge
Definitions of scourge
Noun
1
a whip used as an instrument of punishment.
Begone, or shall I be required to chastise you with the whip and the scourge once more?
Synonyms:
whip horsewhip lash strap birch switch bullwhip rawhide cat-o'-nine-tails
2
a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering.
the scourge of mass unemployment
Synonyms:
affliction bane curse plague menace evil misfortune burden cross to bear blight cancer canker
Verb
1
whip (someone) as a punishment.
As he is beaten, he falls on his back and can see only the foot of the soldier who is scourging him.
Synonyms:
flog whip beat horsewhip lash flagellate strap birch cane thrash belt leather tan someone's hide take a strap to
2
cause great suffering to.
political methods used to scourge and oppress workers
Synonyms:
afflict plague torment torture curse oppress burden bedevil beset
Examples of scourge
This scourge can be countered only if terror has no hiding place.
The finest hospitals lost one out of six young mothers to the scourge of ‘childbed fever.’
Capitalism is incapable of ending the scourge of unemployment.
In this way, public power will be misused and the society will suffer setbacks in fighting the social scourge of corruption.
Rabbits are considered pests, being a scourge on crops and the natural environment.
Like every city, Sheffield suffers from the scourge of nuisance neighbours, but has taken a leading role in trying to address the problem.
‘Bill suffered the scourge of asthma all his life,’ he said.
Zambia has been suffering from the scourge of fuel smuggling across borders because of its central location, the Energy Regulations Board has said.
He was largely responsible for the purging of the Moscow region and in 1938 and was transferred to the Ukraine to scourge the party there.
From the buzzing hive of contradictions that frequently scourge the truly gifted, there are strong signs that McEnroe wanted to do something entirely different.
Begone, or shall I be required to chastise you with the whip and the scourge once more?
The street is the latest in Swindon where normal life has been ruined by the scourge of anti-social behaviour.
political methods used to scourge and oppress workers
the scourge of mass unemployment
the scourge of mass unemployment
If we raise this money now, we will be preventing future generations from suffering this age-old scourge .
While alcohol is the number one problem, the scourge of drugs is also placing increasing pressure on the centre and its 17 permanent staff.
our people did scourge him severely
He continued to scourge me even after I had collapsed onto the pier.
The author of the report on the practical efforts of Dublin mothers against the heroin scourge supported the call for more resources to be made available.
To be punished by the scourge of the seas was not a particularly happy thought.
With new efforts to try to manage this killer disease it is important that nations begin tackling some of the problems that fuel the scourge .
He continued to scourge the defence with two more fine points from play, although there was an element of doubt about the first one.
political methods used to scourge and oppress workers
Unemployment, long the scourge of the Irish economy, remains very low, at around 4.5%, despite the recent slowdown in economic growth.
In response to this serious social scourge the Ministry of Interior has issued an order to stop processing gun licenses.
Since buying their way back to power with the people's own money, they have scourged the country with a series of random and ill-thought out cutbacks.
He also scourges the bureaucracy and the corruption, and the collusion between the Mafia and politicians.
Straddling two of the Indian subcontinent's mightiest rivers, the country is regularly drowned by flood crests surging downstream or scourged by whirlwinds from the sea.
The Abbeyleix Park Development committee say that they are still scourged with the amount of dog fouling in and around the Fr. John Breen Memorial Park.
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Synonyms of scourge
Noun
whip horsewhip lash strap birch switch bullwhip rawhide cat-o'-nine-tails
affliction bane curse plague menace evil misfortune burden cross to bear blight cancer canker
flagellum
curse bane nemesis
threat terror
Verb
flog whip beat horsewhip lash flagellate strap birch cane thrash belt leather tan someone's hide take a strap to
afflict plague torment torture curse oppress burden bedevil beset
