scourge
noun
a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
had scourged
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past perfectof scourge.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Their bulging eyes seemed to rebuke her stares, but what were the attentions of one girl, disturbing their rest, compared to how the world had scourged them since the day they were brought into it?
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
He had struggled and been appalled, he had wrestled in prayer and felt himself unanswered, and in repentance of the feeling had scourged himself with thorns.
From The Dawn of a To-morrow by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
The boats had floated on the sacred lake, the priests had scourged themselves before the sanctuaries, and the images had been borne through the streets at night.
From Cleopatra by Henry Rider Haggard
Years ago Kali, his dire deity, had been outraged by denial in her desire for sacrifice, and since then, in her wrath, the black goddess had scourged the land with plague, pestilence, famine, and earthquake.
From Leonie of the Jungle by Joan Conquest
She had dressed and been gay, and striven to jest as his friends jested: he had scourged her with a cutting sneer.
From The Man in Black by Stanley John Weyman
