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Meanings of scourge in English
To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.
Usage of scourge in English
1
Credit Card Interest Credit cards are a scourge on the family budget.
2
And the Year 2000 problem is proving to be an unavoidable scourge.
3
Let no one underplay the scourge of Islamophobic, racist, extreme right terrorism.
4
The president and I also discussed the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism.
5
The scourge of typhus in Serbia is a recent and graphic illustration.
6
The scourge of nicotine addiction and its lethal effect was a given.
7
Critically, vaccination reliably conferred immunity to the far greater scourge of smallpox.
8
Yes, June brings its usual scourge of sci-fi tentpoles and event television.
9
So far, the United States has been largely exempt from the scourge.
10
Well, to protect the innocent and scourge the wicked in his pride.
11
But Tonio, used to being treated as a scourge, only came closer.
12
Such small, fast-moving forces had once been the scourge of the North.
13
For the third blow he made the scourge whistle through the air.
14
We must end the deadly scourge of domestic violence in our country.
15
The Traders: And the Galilean has driven us out with a scourge.
16
Sumner was the scourge of God, the conscience of the state incarnate.
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Translations for scourge
Portuguese
Catalan
Scourge through the time
Scourge across language varieties
South Africa
Common
Ireland
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common
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