scourge
noun
a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
was scourging
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past progressiveof scourge.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Solzhenitsyn in 1978 was scourging the U.S. for spearheading the decline of the West.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Paris was scourging while need continued: contrariwise, in the Morbihan of Brittany, without scourging, armed Peasants are up, roused by pulpit-drum, they know not why.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
The attorney who was scourging him with the whips of law saw the first break in his armour and bored into it, with ever-increasing vindictiveness.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
Ten minutes later, when she had extracted his promise and abandoned him to the costumers, he was scourging his weakness.
From The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley
Simultaneously a famine was scourging Behar, and Vennard, to do him justice, had made manful efforts to cope with it.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan
