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
As in duty bound I should have scourged her for her neglect, but her youth and beauty forbade such a proceeding, especially as I had been partly the cause of the catastrophe.
From Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by William Henry Giles Kingston
But had Juvenal lived at that period, he would have scourged Dryden out of society.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
"I have scourged myself too often," he said, "to fear such pain; and our Saviour bore stripes for me."
From The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary by Robert Hugh Benson
