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scourge

   [skurj]
noun, verb, scourged, scourg⋅ing.
–noun
1. a whip or lash, esp. for the infliction of punishment or torture.
2. a person or thing that applies or administers punishment or severe criticism.
3. a cause of affliction or calamity: Disease and famine are scourges of humanity.
–verb (used with object)
4. to whip with a scourge; lash.
5. to punish, chastise, or criticize severely.
Origin:
1175–1225; (n.) ME < AF escorge, deriv. of escorgier to whip < VL *excorrigiāre, deriv. of L corrigia thong, whip (see ex- 1 ); (v.) ME < OF escorgier
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scourge     (skûrj)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A source of widespread dreadful affliction and devastation such as that caused by pestilence or war.
  2. A means of inflicting severe suffering, vengeance, or punishment.
  3. A whip used to inflict punishment.
tr.v.   scourged, scourg·ing, scourg·es
  1. To afflict with severe or widespread suffering and devastation; ravage.
  2. To chastise severely; excoriate.
  3. To flog.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman escorge, from Old French escorgier, to whip, from Vulgar Latin *excorrigiāre : Latin ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + Latin corrigia, thong (probably of Celtic origin).]
scourg'er n.
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scourger

noun
a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) [syn: flogger] 

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Scourger

Scour"ger\, n. One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely.

The West must own the scourger of the world. --Byron.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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