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n. A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.

n. A pernicious, evil influence or agent.

n. Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.

n. Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.

n. Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers.

n. The disease called the plague or pest; also, any epidemic malignant disease.

n. That which is pestilential or pestiferous; that which produces or tends to produce malignant disease.

n. That which is morally pestilent; that which is mischievous, noxious, or malignant in any respect.

n. a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

n. a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of

n. any epidemic disease with a high death rate

"So the Lord ... sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it -- The infliction only of the pestilence is here noticed, without any account of its duration or its ravages, while a minute description is given of the visible appearance and menacing attitude of the destroying angel."

influence    epidemic disease   

pesticide    pestilent    pest   

disease   

famine    plague    cholera    drought    blight    sickness    calamity    epidemic    malady    scourge