Wat betekent scourge in het Engels en wat is de definitie van scourge?

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scourge Betekenis, Definitie, Uitspraak, Grammatica & Synoniemen❤️

0 something or someone that causes great suffering or a lot of trouble:
- the scourge of war/poverty/drugs
- Pop-up ads have been described as the scourge of the Internet.
1 to cause great suffering or a lot of trouble:
- The country has been scourged by (= has suffered very much because of) famine in recent years.
2 to beat someone with a whip (= a piece of leather or rope fastened to a stick) as a punishment:
- When Jesus was scourged by the Roman soldiers he bled like a man.
3 someone or something that causes harm, evil, or destruction:
- Smallpox, that scourge of previous generations, now is effectively extinct.

Much of the courtyard pavement survives in the Monastery of the Flagellation, where Jesus Christ was scourged.
The king was filled with guilt for his murder and in 1174 came to Canterbury to be scourged at Becket's tomb by the 80 monks of the Cathedral's Abbey.
At that time the insane were frequently tortured and scourged.
When alone, he would pray still more. He would scourge himself, keep midnight vigils, wear the rough hair shirt.