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to scourge

to scourge

2 9.5
To whip someone as punishment for religious reasons
  • verb
  • /skɜrdʒ/
  • NSFW
translation icon : flagelar
  • Let him be scourged Until he turns from his god.
  • scourged by whips

She gets told the strip and scourged with a whip that actually draws some blood.

Examples

  • Then they weighed him down with a cross and scourged him.

    Quo Vadis (1951)

  • Your orders were to punish this man... ...not to scourge him to death!

    The Passion of the Christ (2004)

  • Or scourge you with willow switches.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • So this court will therefore scourge and chastise Him.

    The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)

  • They'll load you with chains, scourge you with the cat.

    Bedlam (1946)

  • They'll bind you between the two sacred columns And scourge you.

    Samson and Delilah (1949)

  • And when Americans held millions of slaves in violation of their beliefs, were they punished and scourged?

    Academic text (2008)

  • He lay on the floor, scourged, exhausted, a crown of thorns upon his head.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Their Abenaki master and his family were Catholic converts; they challenged the women to prove that their English God would deliver them, or they would be stripped, scourged, and forced to run the gauntlet.

    Academic text (1998)

  • The religious leader decided to scourge the sinner publicly as a form of penance.

Synonyms

to whip
vsto scourge
133 4.4

To hit something with a long thin object or move it quickly and forcefully

is restricted to punitive religious physical beating rather than sudden motion or criticism
to lash
vsto scourge
36 4.8

To hit something forcefully with a whip

is used mainly for punishment or religious discipline rather than any forceful strike
to flagellate
vsto scourge
  • NSFW
2 9.9

To hit yourself or another person with a whip as punishment, often for religious reasons

is the formal term for the same punitive religious flogging
to trounce
vsto scourge
  • Offensive
1 8.4

To beat someone with a whip or stick as punishment

is focused on ritual religious striking rather than general severe beating

Compounds

Scourge of God
  • Literature
9.9

A name for Attila the Hun, the king who attacked the Roman Empire in the 400s

How Severe

to scourge
  • NSFW
2 9.5
to flog
  • NSFW
18 8.3
to beat
  • NSFW
∞ 1.2
to spank
119 3.6
smack
25 3.6

Surface Forms

scourge infinitive
scourged past
scourged past participle
scourging present participle
scourges third person singular

Etymology

Scourge (verb) comes from the Latin excoriare 'to strip the skin', and it first meant 'to whip' someone as a punishment.