scourge
noun
a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
will scourge
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future tenseof scourge.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Wasps, if seen in dreams, denotes that enemies will scourge and spitefully villify you.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller
Tob 13:5 And he will scourge us for our iniquities, and will have mercy again, and will gather us out of all nations, among whom he hath scattered us.
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
‘My father scourged you with whips but I will scourge you with scorpions,’ did not Rehoboam say so? or I forget which King of Judah.
From Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
There are some who think that it will scourge men's souls clean of pettiness, teach them proportion, give them a larger outlook.
From Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart
But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; and ye shall be brought before governors and kings.
From For the Faith by Evelyn Everett-Green
