To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
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Credit Card Interest Credit cards are a scourge on the family budget.
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And the Year 2000 problem is proving to be an unavoidable scourge.
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Let no one underplay the scourge of Islamophobic, racist, extreme right terrorism.
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The president and I also discussed the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism.
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The scourge of typhus in Serbia is a recent and graphic illustration.
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The scourge of nicotine addiction and its lethal effect was a given.
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Critically, vaccination reliably conferred immunity to the far greater scourge of smallpox.
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Yes, June brings its usual scourge of sci-fi tentpoles and event television.
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So far, the United States has been largely exempt from the scourge.
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Well, to protect the innocent and scourge the wicked in his pride.
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But Tonio, used to being treated as a scourge, only came closer.
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Such small, fast-moving forces had once been the scourge of the North.
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For the third blow he made the scourge whistle through the air.
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We must end the deadly scourge of domestic violence in our country.
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The Traders: And the Galilean has driven us out with a scourge.
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Sumner was the scourge of God, the conscience of the state incarnate.
