Empowered, informed citizens are the scourge of any tyrant.
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Scourge
//skɜːd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "scourge" (207 found)
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Closest matches (42)
Strong matches (62)
Related words (103)
larruplarval plaguelatherlay onlay waste tomiserymisfortunemurrainnemesisnuisanceopen woundoppressoroverrunpainpainspains and punishmentspandemiapandemicpaypayment
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More general
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
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4 entriesSynonyms
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
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4 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
97 translations across 27 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- μάστιξ noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- μάστιξ noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Arabic
3 entries- بَلْوَى noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- سوط noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- وباء noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Armenian
1 entries- պատուհաս noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Bashkir
2 entries- бәлә noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- ҡамсы noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
Bulgarian
4 entries- беда noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- бедствие noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- бич noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- камшик noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
Czech
4 entries- bič noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- bič noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- důtky noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- karabáč noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
Danish
2 entries- svøbe noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- svøbe noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Dutch
4 entries- gesel noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- gesel noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- plaag noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- schrik noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Esperanto
1 entries- skurĝo noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
Finnish
4 entries- kirot noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- maanvaiva noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- piiska noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- riesa noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
French
4 entries- fléau noun (person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment)
- fléau noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- fouet noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- écourgée noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
Galician
4 entries- azoute noun (person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment)
- azoute noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- flaxelo noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- flaxelo noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
German
4 entries- Bürde noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- Geißel noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- Geißel noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- Heimsuchung noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Greek
2 entries- μάστιγα noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- μαστίγιο noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
Hebrew
4 entries- מגלב noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- מפגע noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- פגע noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- שוט noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
Irish
2 entries- sciúirse noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- sciúirse noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Italian
4 entries- flagello noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- piaga noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- scuriada noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- scuriata noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
Latin
2 entries- pestis noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- verber noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
Macedonian
4 entries- бич noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- ка́мшик noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- не́среќа noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- по́мор noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- svøpe noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- svøpe noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Polish
1 entries- bicz boży noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Portuguese
4 entries- azorrague noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- azorrague noun (person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment)
- açoite noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- flagelo noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
Romanian
2 entries- bici noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- flagel noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Russian
4 entries- бе́дствие noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- беда́ noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- бич noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- бич noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Sicilian
4 entries- camurrìa noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- rugna noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- siḍḍiju noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- zotta noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
Spanish
3 entries- azote noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- flagelo noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- flagelo noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Swedish
3 entries- gissel noun (whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails)
- gissel noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
- plåga noun (source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble)
Sample sentences
51 total sentences available.
In our fight against drug abuse we shall be committing a serious mistake if we begin to admit that it is a 'lost war' and that, for hypocritically economically-based questions, it is not worthwhile investing enough money to deal with the size of this scourge.
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As far as I understand despite my limited knowledge, here in Venezuela we must adapt to the prevailing mentality and social order. Therefore, an individual must live among opportunism, poverty, manipulation and superficiality. It might be a very characteristic Latino idiosyncrasy to behave as in the book "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez when it comes to dealing with delicate situations. Everybody knows what's happening, but nobody raises his voice and even if somebody did, nobody would support him. Only enlightenment through education could end the ignorance that is a scourge on our people, from which many other problems arise. However, it's unlikely to expect a government to propose to spread values that threaten its own interests, because it's better for them to keep society ignorant in order to manipulate it with ease.
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They heard that a Seven-Headed Dragon was ravaging the neighbouring kingdom, and that the king had promised his daughter's hand to anyone that would free the land from this scourge.
Source: tatoeba (6211539)
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