fléau
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Meanings
Noun
1. a flail, either tool or weapon
2. a scourge; a curse, a calamity or a plague
3. the beam of a mechanical balance (mechanics)
Examples8
Online hatred is a scourge of immense scale.
A flail is a weapon.
Noise pollution is a real scourge in this neighbourhood.
Bureaucracy is a universally-denounced scourge.
Voles in the garden are a nuisance.
He held forth for more than an hour on the evils of nuclear power.