Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Ääntäminen
US
| Käännös | Konteksti | Ääninäyte | |
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| Substantiivit | |||
| 1. | fléau {m} | kuvaannollinen |
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| 2. | plaie {f} |
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| 3. | fouet {m} |
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| 4. | écourgée {f} | ||
| 5. | discipline {f} |
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| 6. | knout {m} |
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
- (figurative)
- A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
- A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
Verbit
- To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun ) or whip; to flog, to whip.
- To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
- (figurative)
- To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
- To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
- (Scotland, agriculture) Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).
Esimerkit
- Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere.
- What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
- America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- He flogged him with a scourge.
- Up to coach then goes / The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.
- Afghanistan suffers from the scourge of corruption.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | scourged | Imperfekti | scourged |
| Partisiipin preesens | scourging | Monikko | scourges |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | scourges | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | scourgeth (vanhahtava) |