Definitions For Scourge

noun

  • A whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
  • A person who inspires fear or dread
  • Something causing misery or death
  • Someone or something that causes a great amount of trouble or suffering
  • A whip that was used to punish people in the past

verb

  • Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  • Whip
  • Punish severely; excoriate
  • To cause a lot of trouble or suffering for (someone or something)
  • To hit (someone) with a whip as punishment

Is Scourge a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
13

The word Scourge is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Scourge in a Sentence

  • A city ravaged by the scourge of unemployment
  • The disease continues to be a scourge in the developing world.
  • A neighborhood scourged by crime
  • The prisoner was scourged with a whip.

Synonyms for Scourge

Antonyms for Scourge

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