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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The memory of it will scourge me as long as I live.
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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
‘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
Tob 13:9 O Jerusalem, the holy city, he will scourge thee for thy children's works, and will have mercy again on the sons of the righteous.
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
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
