SCOURGED Synonyms

• formed or made thin by hammering

• much trodden and worn smooth or bare

• obeying the rules

• trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise

• having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum)

• subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)

• experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

• tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears

• censure severely

• inflict severe punishment on

• censure severely

• beat severely with a whip or rod

• beat with a cane

• any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids

• leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip

• a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

• beat severely with a whip or rod

• lash or flick about sharply

• strike as if by whipping

• bind with a rope, chain, or cord

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a swarm of insects that attack plants

• any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

• an annoyance

• cause to suffer a blight

• annoy continually or chronically

• a swimming kick used while treading water

• give a thrashing to; beat hard

• move or stir about violently

• dance the slam dance

• beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all

• move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation

• beat the seeds out of a grain

• beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

• an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping

• a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline

• a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit

• (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club

• a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

• beat severely with a whip or rod

• defeat thoroughly

• thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash

• strike as if by whipping

• whip with or as if with a wire whisk

• subject to harsh criticism

• something causing misery or death

• profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger

• an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

• an evil spell

• something causing misery or death

• a severe affliction

• utter obscenities or profanities

• heap obscenities upon

• wish harm upon; invoke evil upon

• exclude from a church or a religious community

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• overwhelm or overpower

• having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum)

• a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals

• whip

• a whip used to inflict punishment

• a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa)

• (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance

• something causing misery or death