scourge

/skɜːrdʒ/

意味: 災厄、苦しみの種

例文: Momo is the scourge of unattended food.
　　  モモは放置された食べ物の天敵だ。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: scourge of (〜の災い), scourge for (〜にとっての災い), scourge against (〜に対する災い)

定義: 災い、苦しみを引き起こすものや人、特に多くの人々に影響を与える問題や病気を指します。

scourgeは約600,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
Noun: something causing misery or death
Noun: a person who inspires fear or dread
Verb: punish severely; excoriate
Verb: whip
Verb: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The plague was a scourge on the entire village.(疫病は村全体の災いだった。)
Corruption became the scourge of the government.(腐敗は政府の害悪となった。)
The drought acted as a scourge on the farmers’ crops.(干ばつは農作物の天敵だった。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the bane of my life
Noun: he was the terror of the neighborhood
Verb: The religious fanatics flagellated themselves
Verb: The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): bane, curse, desolate, devastate, flagellate, flagellum, lay waste to, nemesis, ravage, scourge, terror, threat, waste

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): affliction, destroy, flog, person, punish, whip

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abator, abjurer, abomination, abstainer, achiever, acquaintance, acquirer, active, actor, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adult, adventurer, adversary, advisee, advocate, affiant, african, agnostic, amateur, amerce, amerindian, ancient, anomaly, anti, anti-american, applicant, appointee, appreciator, apprehender, aquarius, archaist, aries, arrogator, assessee, asthmatic, attack, authority, autodidact, baby boomer, baby buster, bad guy, bad person, baldhead, balker, bane, bather, beard, bedfellow, bereaved, best, birch, birth, biter, black, blogger, blond, bluecoat, bodybuilder, bomber, break, brunet, bullfighter, burn, bust up, buster, calvary, cancer, candidate, capitalist, capricorn, captor, case, cashier, castigate, cat, cat-o’-nine-tails, celebrant, censor, chameleon, changer, charmer, child, chutzpanik, closer, clumsy person, collector, color-blind person, combatant, commoner, communicator, complexifier, compulsive, computer user, consume, contemplative, contestant, convert, copycat, counter, counterterrorist, coward, cowhide, crawler, creator, creature, creditor, cripple, curse, dancer, dead person, deaf person, debaser, debtor, defecator, delayer, deliverer, demander, devour, dieter, differentiator, discipline, disentangler, disputant, dissenter, divider, do a job on, domestic partner, double, dresser, dribbler, drug user, dyslectic, ectomorph, effecter, elizabethan, emotional person, endomorph, engineer, enjoyer, enrollee, entertainer, ethnic, execute, experimenter, expert, explode, explorer, extrovert, face, faddist, faller, fastener, female, fiduciary, first-rater, flagellate, follower, free agent, friend, fugitive, gainer, gambler, gatekeeper, gatherer, gemini, gentile, get, good guy, good person, granter, greeter, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, handicapped person, harry, hater, heterosexual, homosexual, homunculus, hope, hoper, horsewhip, huddler, hugger, immune, individualist, inhabitant, innocent, insured, intellectual, interpreter, introvert, jat, jew, jewel, jumper, junior, juvenile, kick in, killer, kink, kneeler, knocker, knout, knower, large person, latin, laugher, lay waste to, leader, learner, leather, left-hander, leo, libra, life, lightning rod, linguist, literate, liver, longer, loose cannon, loved one, lover, machine, mailer, malcontent, male, man, man jack, manipulator, married, masturbator, measurer, mesomorph, mestizo, middlebrow, miracle man, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, money handler, monolingual, mother hen, mouse, mutilator, namer, namesake, national, native, neglecter, neighbor, neutral, nondescript, nonmember, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonperson, nonreligious person, nonresident, nonsmoker, nonworker, nude, nurser, occultist, optimist, orphan, ostrich, ouster, outcaste, outdoorsman, owner, pamperer, pansexual, pardoner, partner, party, passer, peer, perceiver, percher, person of color, personage, personification, perspirer, philosopher, picker, pillory, pisces, pisser, planner, player, posturer, powderer, precursor, preserver, primitive, propositus, public relations person, pursuer, pussycat, quarter, quirt, quitter, radical, rape, realist, rectifier, redhead, registrant, relative, reliever, religious person, repeater, rescuer, rester, restrainer, revenant, revenge, rich person, riding crop, right-hander, riser, romper, roundhead, ruler, rusher, sagittarius, scientist, scorpio, scourge, scratcher, second-rater, seeder, seeker, segregate, self, sensualist, sentimentalist, sex object, sex symbol, shaker, shipwreck, showman, signer, simpleton, six-footer, skidder, slav, slave, sleepyhead, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, snuffer, snuffler, socializer, sort, sounding board, sphinx, spitter, sport, sprawler, spurner, squinter, stifler, stigmatic, stooper, stranger, strap, struggler, subject, subvert, supernumerary, surrenderer, survivalist, survivor, suspect, switch, tagger, tapper, tar-and-feather, taurus, tempter, termer, terror, testator, thin person, third-rater, thrower, tiger, totemist, toucher, transfer, transsexual, transvestite, traveler, trial, trier, turner, tyrant, undoer, unfortunate, unskilled person, unwelcome person, user, vandalize, vanisher, victim, victimize, victorian, virgo, visionary, visually impaired person, waiter, waker, walk-in, wanter, ward, warrior, wash out, watcher, weakling, weasel, white, wiggler, winker, withholder, witness, worker, worldling, yawner

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): ruin

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: desolation, devastation, flagellant, flagellate, flagellation, flagellum, ravage, ravaging, scourge, scourger, terrorist, waster

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

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Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

英検1級

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Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, fear, negative, sadness