SCOURGING Synonyms

• the material of which belts are made

• work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)

• beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

• the act of whipping with a horsewhip

• beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

• rope that is used for fastening something to something else

• violently urging on by whipping or flogging

• the act of slapping on the buttocks

• quick and energetic

• a sound defeat

• the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

• beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

• a sound defeat

• a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally

• the act of overcoming or outdoing

• smart and fashionable

• hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

• any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

• a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

• consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

• whip with a birch twig

• 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

• an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing

• give a thrashing to; beat hard

• move like a flail; thresh about

• 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