I. noun
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I just repeated the story about my speech on the scourge of gangsterism.
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Some of my best friends have been taken by that scourge .
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Sustained international terror has been a scourge on civilized society for the past quarter-century.
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Thérèse did not possess a hair shirt, or a belt spiked with rusty nails, or a scourge .
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The scourge had abated, but psychological damage had been done, which was not so readily repaired.
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The harpies from Paris running the road houses which must inevitably multiply will be a worse scourge than the mosquitoes.
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The weather was like a scourge , the land could kill you.
II. verb
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Enraged, he had her broken on a wheel, scourged and beheaded, at which milk flowed from her veins.
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In another age Preston would have been out there with the self-flagellants, scourging away for all he was worth.
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It flicked behind each dimpled knee; and then scourged her at intervals from her pretty ankles to her shoulder blades.