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scourged; scourging
scourger noun
Example Sentences
Noun a city ravaged by the scourge of unemployment The disease continues to be a scourge in the developing world. Verb a neighborhood scourged by crime The prisoner was scourged with a whip.
Recent Examples on the Web
Allison Morrow, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022 Polio was a fearsome, sometimes fatal scourge before an inactivated vaccine was first announced in 1955. Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022 But Atlanta has also seen a scourge of gun violence, often in public places. Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2022 Concerns about prices of pork, soybeans and solar panels are small beer in light of this scourge, which is now responsible for the annual deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. WSJ, 12 July 2022 The movement to fight tuberculosis, then a big public health scourge, and other public health crusades played a critical role in sensitizing the public to the importance of germs. Jeffrey E. Harris, STAT, 24 Apr. 2022 If the infosecurity news cycle is anything to go by, ransomware is the unequivocal scourge of the cyber-seas. Jamie Akhtar, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022 But that feeling quickly went away as doctors had to deal with the scourge itself, and with a public-health failure of actions. Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022 The nation’s gross national product doubled between 1940 and 1945, and unemployment, the scourge of the Great Depression, virtually disappeared. David Oshinsky, WSJ, 29 July 2022 Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2021 Prior to Christ's crucifixion, Roman soldiers ordered him to be scourged. Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2020 Yet what’s most original in the film is Mercier’s scathing and self-scourging performance (and there’s no gainsaying the importance of Yoav’s outfit, a collarless saffron-yellow coat). Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2019 After a wet few years in the Great Lakes basin, the Lake Michigan water levels tied a record July high from 1986 — and that’s less than six years after record low levels scourged the region in 2013. Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2019 Powerful air armadas scourged German defenses, with 750 to 1000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators mauling bridges, railroad targets and airfields in an arc 100 to 150 miles south of the beachhead. Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2019 Since then, as The Los Angeles Times reported, the resulting blaze had scorched 121,000 acres, destroyed 1,564 buildings, killed six, and scourged the city of Redding and the surrounding area, a little over 200 miles north of San Francisco. Lauren Young, Teen Vogue, 2 Aug. 2018 From their first dogfights in December 1941 until their contracts expired in July 1942, the Tigers scourged the enemy with breathtaking courage. Gregory Crouch, WSJ, 19 July 2018 The single-use plastic straw — colorful, functional and handed out in bunches — has suddenly shifted from consumer staple to scourge, projected by some critics to foul ecosystems for an eon. Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018 See More
Noun
Of course, there's no shortage of handwringing out there about how this is just another lazy young-person trend, a Gen Z scourge, a fad carried out by a bunch of entitled brats who are ruining their career prospects. Allison Morrow, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022 Polio was a fearsome, sometimes fatal scourge before an inactivated vaccine was first announced in 1955. Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022 But Atlanta has also seen a scourge of gun violence, often in public places. Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2022 Concerns about prices of pork, soybeans and solar panels are small beer in light of this scourge, which is now responsible for the annual deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. WSJ, 12 July 2022 The movement to fight tuberculosis, then a big public health scourge, and other public health crusades played a critical role in sensitizing the public to the importance of germs. Jeffrey E. Harris, STAT, 24 Apr. 2022 If the infosecurity news cycle is anything to go by, ransomware is the unequivocal scourge of the cyber-seas. Jamie Akhtar, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022 But that feeling quickly went away as doctors had to deal with the scourge itself, and with a public-health failure of actions. Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022 The nation’s gross national product doubled between 1940 and 1945, and unemployment, the scourge of the Great Depression, virtually disappeared. David Oshinsky, WSJ, 29 July 2022 Verb
Of all the fearful diseases that scourge the human race, this ranks among those that are justly feared most. Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2021 Prior to Christ's crucifixion, Roman soldiers ordered him to be scourged. Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2020 Yet what’s most original in the film is Mercier’s scathing and self-scourging performance (and there’s no gainsaying the importance of Yoav’s outfit, a collarless saffron-yellow coat). Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2019 After a wet few years in the Great Lakes basin, the Lake Michigan water levels tied a record July high from 1986 — and that’s less than six years after record low levels scourged the region in 2013. Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2019 Powerful air armadas scourged German defenses, with 750 to 1000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators mauling bridges, railroad targets and airfields in an arc 100 to 150 miles south of the beachhead. Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2019 Since then, as The Los Angeles Times reported, the resulting blaze had scorched 121,000 acres, destroyed 1,564 buildings, killed six, and scourged the city of Redding and the surrounding area, a little over 200 miles north of San Francisco. Lauren Young, Teen Vogue, 2 Aug. 2018 From their first dogfights in December 1941 until their contracts expired in July 1942, the Tigers scourged the enemy with breathtaking courage. Gregory Crouch, WSJ, 19 July 2018 The single-use plastic straw — colorful, functional and handed out in bunches — has suddenly shifted from consumer staple to scourge, projected by some critics to foul ecosystems for an eon. Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French escorge, from escorger to whip, from Vulgar Latin *excorrigiare, from Latin ex- + corrigia thong, whip
First Known Use
Noun
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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