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1. scourge
noun. ['ˈskɝːdʒ'] a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor).
Synonyms
Rhymes with Scourge
- submerge
- reemerge
- converge
- splurge
- diverge
- spurge
- emerge
- virge
- verge
- surge
- serge
- purge
- merge
- dirge
- burdge
- birge
- berge
How do you pronounce scourge?
Pronounce scourge as skərʤ.
US - How to pronounce scourge in American English
UK - How to pronounce scourge in British English
Sentences with scourge
1. Noun, singular or mass
Stains are the scourge of an otherwise clean house.
Quotes about scourge
1. Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
- Craig Brown
2. For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
3. A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
