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# scourge

«scourge» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person, animal or thing that causes great trouble or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (scourges); verb (scourge, scourges, scourged, scourging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A scourge is a person, animal or thing that causes great trouble or suffering, a plague. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scourge/#m1)

2) (old use) A scourge is a whip used to beat someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scourge/#m2)

3) To scourge is (old use) to whip or beat someone as a punishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scourge/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a terrible creature that brings fear and harm to a country, such as «the scourge of our country»

### examples

- The dragon was the scourge of the land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scourge/#x1)
- Snakes can be the scourge of a village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scourge/#x2)
- The fire was the scourge of the old town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scourge/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.111/)
- [If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the guiltless.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.222/)
- [They are children of churls, yea, children of ignoble men; they were scourged out of the land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.756/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scourge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scourge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.