What is the meaning of Scourge?

A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.

  1. A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
  2. A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.

    A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.

    A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.

    To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.

    To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.

    1. To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
    2. To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
    3. Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).

    To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.

    To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.

    Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).

    Source: wiktionary.org