Definitions from Wiktionary (scourge)

▸ noun:  (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
▸ noun:  (figurative)
▸ noun:  A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
▸ noun:  A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
▸ verb:  To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.
▸ verb:  To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
▸ verb:  (figurative)
▸ verb:  To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
▸ verb:  To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
▸ verb:  (Scotland, agriculture) Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).

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