Usually means: Cause of widespread or great suffering.
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  1. scourge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scourge: Merriam-Webster
  3. scourge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scourge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scourge: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scourge: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scourge, scourge: Wordnik
  8. scourge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scourge: Wiktionary
  10. scourge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scourge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scourge: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scourge: Dictionary.com
  14. scourge (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Scourge (album), Scourge (disambiguation), Scourge, The Scourge (Stargate SG-1), The Scourge (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scourge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scourge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scourge: Rhymezone
  19. scourge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scourge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scourge: FreeDictionary.org
  22. scourge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scourge: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. scourge: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. scourge: Legal dictionary

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  1. scourge: Encyclopedia

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  1. Scourge: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
noun:  (figurative)
noun:  A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
noun:  A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
verb:  To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.
verb:  To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
verb:  To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
verb:  (Scotland, agriculture) Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).

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