Synonyms of the word

scourge

• n. (uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread…
• n. A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
• n. A whip, often of leather.
• v. To strike with a scourge, to flog.

affliction

• n. A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
• n. Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.

bane

• n. A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse.
• n. (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
• n. (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer.
• n. (obsolete) destruction; death.
• n. A disease of sheep; the rot.
• v. (transitive) To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
• v. (transitive) To be the bane of.
• n. (chiefly Scotland) bone.

curse

• n. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
• n. A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
• n. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
• n. A vulgar epithet.
• n. (slang) A woman's menses.
• v. (transitive) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
• v. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
• v. (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
• v. (intransitive) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
• v. To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which…

desolate

• adj. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
• adj. Barren and lifeless.
• adj. Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
• adj. Dismal or dreary.
• adj. Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
• v. To deprive of inhabitants.
• v. To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
• v. To abandon or forsake something. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English…}
• v. To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

destroy

• v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
• v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
• v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
• v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
• v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
• v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
• v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

devastate

• v. To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a…
• v. To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
• v. To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless…

flagellate

• v. To whip or scourge.
• adj. Resembling a whip.
• adj. (biology) Having flagella.
• n. (biology) Any organism that has flagella.

flagellum

• n. (biology) In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding.
• n. (biology) In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion.
• n. A whip.

flog

• v. (transitive) To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.
• v. (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To sell something.
• v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
• v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
• v. (transitive, agriculture) To exploit.
• n. (Internet slang) A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing…

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

lash

• n. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
• n. (obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
• n. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
• n. A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
• n. A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
• n. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
• n. In British English, it refers to heavy drinking with friends, (i.e. We were out on the lash last night).
• v. (transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
• v. (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like…
• v. (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
• v. (transitive) To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
• v. (intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
• v. (intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.
• v. (intransitive, of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
• v. (transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
• adj. (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
• adj. (obsolete) Relaxed.
• adj. Soft, watery, wet.
• adj. (Ulster) excellent, wonderful.
• adj. Drunk.

lather

• n. The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
• n. Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
• n. A state of agitation.
• v. (transitive) To cover with lather.
• v. (transitive) To beat or whip.
• v. (intransitive) To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

nemesis

• n. (chiefly Canada, US) An archenemy.
• n. (chiefly non-North American usage) A person or character who specifically brings about the downfall of…
• n. The principle of retributive justice.
• n. (usually in the singular, formal) A punishment or defeat that is deserved and cannot be avoided.
• n. The polar opposite of a character.
• n. A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent.

penalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of penalize.

penalize

• v. (transitive) To subject to a penalty, especially for the infringement of a rule or regulation.
• v. (transitive, sports) To impose a handicap on.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

punish

• v. To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
• v. To cause great harm to (a punishing blow).

ravage

• v. (transitive) To devastate or destroy something.
• v. (transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
• v. (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
• n. Grievous damage or havoc.
• n. Depredation or devastation.

ruin

• n. (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a…
• n. (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
• n. (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
• n. (obsolete) A fall or tumble.
• n. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
• v. (transitive) to cause the fiscal ruin of.
• v. To destroy or make something no longer usable.
• v. To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
• v. To upset or mess up the plans or progress of, or to put into disarray; to spoil.

slash

• n. A slashing action or motion, particularly.
• n. A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly.
• n. Something resembling such a mark, particularly.
• n. (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left…
• n. Clipping of slash fiction: fan fiction focused upon shipping characters.
• v. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly.
• v. To strike violently and randomly, particularly.
• v. To move quickly and violently.
• v. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
• v. (US and Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires…
• v. (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
• adv. Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
• conj. (US and Canada) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
• conj. (US and Canada) Used to list alternatives.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
• n. (Britain, slang) A piss: an act of urination.
• v. (Britain, slang, intransitive) To piss, to urinate.
• n. (US) A swampy area; a swamp.
• n. (Britain) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical…

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

strap

• n. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
• n. A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
• n. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular…
• n. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge…
• n. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
• n. (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
• n. (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
• n. A shoulder strap, see under shoulder.
• n. (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
• v. (transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
• v. (transitive) To fasten or bind with a strap.
• v. (transitive) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop.

terror

• n. (uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
• n. (countable) Specific instance of being intensely terrified.
• n. (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative…
• n. (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
• n. (uncountable) terrorism.

threat

• n. An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
• n. An indication of potential or imminent danger.
• n. A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
• v. (transitive) To press; urge; compel.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To threaten.
• v. (intransitive) To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

waste

• n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
• n. Excrement or urine.
• n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
• n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
• n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
• n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays…
• n. A vast expanse of water.
• n. A disused mine or part of one.
• n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
• n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
• n. Gradual loss or decay.
• n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
• n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
• n. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the…
• n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the…
• adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
• adj. Barren; desert.
• adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
• adj. Superfluous; needless.
• adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
• adj. Unfortunate; disappointing.
• v. (transitive) to devastate, destroy.
• v. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
• v. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to…
• v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
• v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
• v. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences,…

welt

• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve.
• n. A raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal or weal.
• n. (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through…
• n. A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
• n. In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
• n. In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
• n. In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
• n. (heraldry) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
• v. To cause to have welts, to beat.
• v. To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.

whip

• n. A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided…
• n. (hunting) A whipper-in.
• n. (politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
• n. (Britain, politics, with definite article) A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing…
• n. Whipped cream.
• n. (nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and…
• n. (roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
• n. A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
• n. The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
• n. Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion.
• n. (Should we delete^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for deletion?? +])} this sense?) (informal, slang) Car;…
• v. (transitive) To hit with a whip.
• v. (transitive) By extension, to hit with any flexible object.
• v. (transitive, slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
• v. (transitive) To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
• v. (transitive) To urge into action.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying:…
• v. (transitive, nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
• v. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and…
• v. (transitive) To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
• v. (transitive) To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
• v. (intransitive) To snap back and forth like a whip.
• v. (intransitive) To move very fast.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
• v. (transitive, roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
• v. (figuratively) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
• v. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.