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n. A widespread affliction or calamity, especially one seen as divine retribution.

n. A sudden destructive influx or injurious outbreak: a plague of locusts; a plague of accidents.

n. A cause of annoyance; a nuisance: "the plague of social jabbering” ( George Santayana).

n. A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease; a pestilence.

n. A highly fatal infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Yersinia (syn. Pasturella ) pestis, is transmitted primarily by the bite of a rat flea, and occurs in bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic forms.

v. To pester or annoy persistently or incessantly. See Synonyms at harass.

v. To afflict with or as if with a disease or calamity: "Runaway inflation further plagued the wage- or salary-earner” ( Edwin O. Reischauer).

n. The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.

n. An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.

n. A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.

n. A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates

v. To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.

v. To afflict with a disease or other calamity.

n. That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

n. An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence.

v. To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.

v. Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.

n. A blow or calamity; severe trouble or vexation; also, one who or that which troubles or vexes, or ravages or destroys.

n. Any epidemic disease of high mortality.

n. As an expletive with the article the, used like the devil, the deuce, etc. Compare devil, 7.

To vex; harass; trouble; annoy; tease.

To infest with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.

Synonyms Torment, Worry, etc. (see tease), gall, bore.

To afflict.

n.

v. cause to suffer a blight

n. any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

n. an annoyance

n. any epidemic disease with a high death rate

n. a swarm of insects that attack plants

v. annoy continually or chronically

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

"Although the plague is a fact of history, one will find it difficult to locate anything more horrific than the pestilence that arrived that year in Europe."

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