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nounany epidemic disease with a high death rate
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verbcause to suffer a blight
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"a plague of grasshoppers"nouna swarm of insects that attack plants
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verbannoy continually or chronically
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nouna 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
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"those children are a damn plague"nounan annoyance
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nounany large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)type of:
Definition that contains plague
- edward son of Edward II and King of England from 1327-1377; his claim to the French throne provoked the Hundred Years' War; his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of the House of Commons as the powerful arm of British Parliament (1312-1377)
- blasting causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
- ruinous causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
- bubo a lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis
- black plague the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
- glandular plague the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person
- murrain any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague
- plague spot a spot on the skin characteristic of the plague
- ambulant plague a mild form of bubonic plague
- yersin French bacteriologist born in Switzerland; was a student of Pasteur; discovered the plague bacillus (1863-1943)