Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS
ÖversättningUttal
Substantiv
1.plåga {en}
  • Uttal
2.gissel {ett}
3.gisslare {en}

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.
  2. A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
  3. A whip, often of leather.

Verb

  1. To strike with a scourge, to flog.

Exempel

  • Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere.
  • What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
  • America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
  • He flogged him with a scourge.
  • Up to coach then goes / The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.
  • Afghanistan suffers from the scourge of corruption.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipscourgedImperfektscourged
PresensparticipscourgingPluralscourges
Tredje person singular indicativ presensscourgesTredje person singular indicativ presensscourgeth

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