scourge
noun
a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
have scourged
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present perfectof scourge.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Nine major fires have scourged the Paradise area in the last century, including two back-to-back blazes that reached the edge of town in the summer of 2008.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2018
Today, we have solid evidence that confirms environmental changes like these can be blamed directly or indirectly for most mass extinctions that have scourged the Earth.
From Slate ● May 15, 2013
Innumerable raids of this kind have scourged eastern Persia, and in the same way Turkomans have devastated Khorasan in the north-east.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
Doubt when they favor thee, though thou mayest laugh When they have scourged thee with an iron scourge.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus
Worse than all, how could she meet the scornful eyes of the man who had driven from the place the suitor that she was supposed to favor as he might have scourged away a dog.
From A Face Illumined by Edward Payson Roe
