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SCOURGES

8 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

SCOURGES is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

SCOURGES root SCOURGE-s

Word family

SCOURGE 5 SCOURGING 11 SCOURGED-d 11
noun
  1. historicalA whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
    • He flogged him with a scourge.
  2. figurativelyA person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
  3. figurativelyA source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
    • Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere.
verb
  1. transitiveTo strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun etymology 1 sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.
  2. transitiveTo drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
  3. figurativelytransitiveTo punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
  4. figurativelytransitiveTo cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
  5. ScotlandfigurativelytransitiveOf a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).