Scourge /skɜːdʒ/ - /skɝːdʒ/
(Noun) Something or someone that causes great suffering or a lot of trouble. Someone or something that causes harm, evil, or destruction. A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
(Verb) To cause great suffering or a lot of trouble. To strike with a scourge. To beat someone with a whip as a punishment.
From Anglo-French escorge, back-formation from Old French escorgier 'to whip', from Vulgar Latin *excorrigiare, from Latin ex- 'out, off' + corrigia 'thong, shoelace', in this case 'whip', probably from a Gaulish word related to Old Irish cuimrech 'fetter', from PIE root *reig- 'to bind' (rig (v.).
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