[skəːdʒ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a whip used as an instrument of punishment

- a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering
(e.g: the scourge of mass unemployment)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: shortening of Old French escorge (noun), escorgier (verb), from Latin ex- ‘thoroughly’ + corrigia ‘thong, whip’

[skəːdʒ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- whip (someone) as a punishment
(e.g: our people did scourge him severely)

- cause great suffering to
(e.g: political methods used to scourge and oppress workers)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: shortening of Old French escorge (noun), escorgier (verb), from Latin ex- ‘thoroughly’ + corrigia ‘thong, whip’