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Scourge vs Lambaste - What's the difference?

scourge | lambaste |

As verbs the difference between scourge and lambaste

is that scourge is to strike with a scourge , to flog while lambaste is to scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.

As a noun scourge

is (uncountable) a source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.

scourge

English

Noun

  • (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
    • What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
    • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=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.}}
  • A whip, often of leather.
  • * Chapman
    • Up to coach then goes / The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.

    Verb

  • To strike with a scourge , to flog.

    • See also

    * (pedia)

    lambaste

    English

    Alternative forms

    * lambast (UK)

    Verb

    (lambast)
  • To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
    • The sergeant lambasted the new recruits daily.
    Her first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics.
  • * 2013 , Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession'' (in ''The Guardian , 19 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-legal-challenges-confession]
    • Indeed, part of the problem was that Armstrong was rowing back on so much previous behaviour and years of aggressive lambasting of reporters, officials and team-mates who had claimed he was doping. "I don't forgive Lance Armstrong, who lied to me in two interviews. And I suspect most of America won't, either," Kurtz wrote.
  • (dated) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.

    • Synonyms

    * (to give a thrashing to) beat, hit, thrash * (to scold or verbally reprimand) berate, scold, tell off

    Anagrams

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