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单词 scourged
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scourgedadj.

/skəːdʒd/
Etymology: < scourge v. + -ed suffix1.
1. Beaten, flogged.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [adjective] > that has been beaten
chastisedc1440
scourged1543
coiled1569
lashed1611
well-disciplined1660
flogged1836
lickeda1896
tanned1905
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ix. f. 232/2 Ye shall applye vpon the skourged place thys cerote [following].
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2264/1 In this societie of the scourged professors of Christ, was also one Iames Harris.
1693 S. Harvey in J. Dryden tr. Juvenal Satires ix. 185 Let the Great Man, whom gaping Crowds attend, Fear a scourg'd Slave.
1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day ii. 38 Now tell the scourg'd Impostor, he shall bleed!
1831 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. July 267 There will always be a difference of opinion on the amount of evil between the oppressor and the oppressed, between the scourger and the scourged.
1853 O. W. Holmes Poem Amer. Med. Assoc. 47 The scourged racer.
transitive.1821 J. Baillie W. Wallace in Metrical Legends liv. 5 While the scourged oak and shaken pine Aloft in brighten'd verdure shine.
2. Of land: Exhausted by improper cultivation.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > exhausted
worn1681
sickly1697
potato-sick1834
harvestless1868
scourged1880
turnip-sick1880
soil-sick1962
desertified1980
1880 M. Allan-Olney New Virginians I. 85 A sign of scourged land and disgraceful farming.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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