Help
Help noun - An act or instance of helping.
Scourge
Scourge noun - A source of harm or misfortune.
Usage example: the sheer ubiquity of food is proving to be the scourge of humanity, as evidenced by the obesity epidemic
How words are described
| alien | alien help | alien scourge |
| divine | divine help | divine scourge |
| actual | actual help | actual scourge |
| big | big help | big scourge |
| Other adjectives: great, serious, personal, supernatural, new, further. | ||
Common collocations
| reputation | help reputation | scourge reputation |
Both words in one sentence
- This is a scourge on eBay, where you don't need someone else to help and the nature of the internet makes it almost impossible to get caught.
Source: The Shill -
Immediate and sincere cooperation in this matter will help your friend, the Computer, contain the terrible scourge of Machine Empathy!.
Source: Tabletop Game / Paranoia -
Subverted after Cage loses the power in the same way Rita did and is unable to achieve victory on his own — and so enlists the help of J Squad to end the mimic scourge once and for all.
Source: Film / Edge of Tomorrow
Cite this Source
Scourge and Help. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/help/scourge
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Scourge or Help. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/help/scourge.
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