scourge
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(historical)(weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
He flogged him with a scourge.
- 2.
(figuratively)A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
- 3.
(figuratively)A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun etymology 1 sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.
Đồng nghĩa: belt, birch, cut, feague, flagellate, flog, knout, lash, lather, quirt, scourge, scutch, slash, strap, stripe, thrash, thresh, whip, whoop, yark
- 2.
(transitive)To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
- 3.
(figuratively, transitive)To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
- 4.
(figuratively, transitive)To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
- 5.
(Scotland, figuratively, transitive)Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).
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