scourge
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
Types & categories
- whip hypernym
Related & opposite
- flagellate derivation
- scourge derivation
Sense 2 verb
punish severely; excoriate
Types & categories
- punish hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
something causing misery or death
the bane of my life
Types & categories
- affliction hypernym
Related & opposite
- devastate derivation
Sense 4 verb
whip
The religious fanatics flagellated themselves
Types & categories
- whip hypernym
Related & opposite
- whipping derivation
- flagellum derivation
- flagellant derivation
- flagellant derivation
- flogger derivation
Sense 5 noun
a person who inspires fear or dread
he was the terror of the neighborhood
Types & categories
- person hypernym
Related & opposite
- terrorist derivation
Sense 6 verb
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- destruction derivation
- ravaging derivation
- ravage derivation
- devastation derivation
- ruiner derivation
- bane derivation
- bareness derivation
- devastation derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | flagellate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | scourge |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | whip |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flagellum |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flogger |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | punish |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | devastate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | affliction |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | whipping |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | flagellum |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | flagellant |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | flagellant |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | flogger |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | whip |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | terrorist |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | person |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | destruction |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | ravaging |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | ravage |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | devastation |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | ruiner |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | bane |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | bareness |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | devastation |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | ruin |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | ruin |