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Plague   /pleɪg/   Listen
Plague

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: pest, pestilence, pestis.
2.
Any epidemic disease with a high death rate.  Synonyms: pest, pestilence.
3.
A swarm of insects that attack plants.  Synonym: infestation.
4.
Any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God).
5.
An annoyance.
verb
(past & past part. plagued; pres. part. plaguing)
1.
Cause to suffer a blight.  Synonym: blight.
2.
Annoy continually or chronically.  Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, provoke.  "This man harasses his female co-workers"



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"Plague" Quotes from Famous Books



... none other than a pestilential visitation brought into the valleys by the French troops, who were at this time occupying the valleys. By this terrible plague some ten thousand of the Vaudois perished, including twelve pastors. Only three pastors being now left, application was made to Geneva for assistance, and pastors being sent from thence introduced a polity which was Presbyterian rather than Episcopalian. Still ...
— The Vaudois of Piedmont - A Visit to their Valleys • John Napper Worsfold
... still free companions. On asking why they kept them in confinement, "Because they sing sweetly," was the answer. They feed them on the lotsa ('Pennisetum typhoideum'), of which great quantities are cultivated as food for man, and these canaries plague the gardeners here, very much in the same way as ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone
... of Leicester Abbey, canon and chronicler, tells us some of the consequences following on the plague, and shows us very clearly the social upheaval it effected. The population had now so much diminished that prices of live stock went down, an ox costing 4s., a cow 12d., and a sheep 3d. But for the same reason wages went up, for labour had suddenly grown scarce. For want of hands to bring ...
— Mediaeval Socialism • Bede Jarrett
... by all means do so!" insisted the snake. "You must see that the humans know of no cure for this plague." ...
— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof
... had become merely an empty emblem of restriction, and without recourse to it each knew beyond question where the dividing line between the estates ran; moreover, as both families shunned the other's land as if it were plague-ridden territory there was scant temptation for them to invade each other's domains. But the man and the woman had inherited too much of the blood of the original stock to consider ...
— The Wall Between • Sara Ware Bassett


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