1. a person who whips or beats someone as punishment
Usage: historical
2. a person who causes great suffering or hardship to others
Usage: figurative

Examples

• The cruel scourger showed no mercy to the prisoners.
• In ancient times, a scourger would carry out physical punishments.
• The dictator was known as the scourger of his own people.
• History remembers him as a scourger who brought misery to thousands.
• The novel depicts the villain as a merciless scourger of the innocent.
• Medieval records describe the role of the official scourger in the castle.