Impairment vs Scourge - What's the difference?
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The result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part or factor.
(accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
(uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.
A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
* Shakespeare
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A whip, often of leather.
* Chapman
To strike with a scourge , to flog.
Impairment is a related term of scourge.
As nouns the difference between impairment and scourge
is that impairment is the result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part or factor while scourge is (uncountable) a source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.As a verb scourge is
to strike with a scourge , to flog.impairment
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Alternative forms
* empairment (rare)Noun
(wikipedia impairment) (en noun)scourge
English
Noun
- What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
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- Up to coach then goes / The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.