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Definition of 'plague'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) plague
an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.

2.  plague
an infectious, epidemic disease caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, characterized by fever, chills, and prostration, transmitted to humans from rats by means of the bites of fleas.

3.  plague
any widespread affliction, calamity, or evil.

4.  plague
any cause of trouble, annoyance, or vexation.

5. (v.t.) plague
to trouble, annoy, or torment in any manner.

6.  plague
to smite with a plague or pestilence.

7.  plague
to cause an epidemic in or among.

8.  plague
to afflict with any evil.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME plage < LL plāga pestilence, L: stripe, wound)

Definition of 'plague'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) plague, pestilence, pest, pestis
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

2. (noun) plague, pestilence, pest
any epidemic disease with a high death rate

3. (noun) infestation, plague
a swarm of insects that attack plants
"a plague of grasshoppers"

4. (noun) plague
any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

5. (verb) plague
an annoyance
"those children are a damn plague"

6. (verb) blight, plague
cause to suffer a blight
"Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"

7. (verb) harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
annoy continually or chronically
"He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"

Definition of 'plague'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) plague
that which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation

2. (noun) plague
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; as, the great London plague

3. (verb) plague
to infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind

4. (verb) plague
fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass

Definition of 'plague'

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. plague
An acute infectious disease caused by YERSINIA PESTIS that affects humans, wild rodents, and their ectoparasites. This condition persists due to its firm entrenchment in sylvatic rodent-flea ecosystems throughout the world. Bubonic plague is the most common form.

Translation of 'plague'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: especially formerly, an extremely infectious and deadly disease, especially one carried by fleas from rats.
Afrikaans: builepes	Arabic: طاعون	Bulgarian: чума
Brazilian: peste	Czech: mor	German: die Seuche
Danish: pest	Greek: πανούκλα	Spanish: peste
Estonian: katk	Farsi: طاعون	Finnish: rutto
French: peste	Hebrew: מַגֵיפָה	Hindi: महामारी
Croatian: kuga, pošast	Hungarian: pestis	Indonesian: penyakit pes
Icelandic: plága, drepsótt	Italian: peste	Japanese: 伝染病
Korean: 역병	Lithuanian: maras	Latvian: mēris
Malay: wabak	Dutch: pest	Norwegian: pest
Polish: dżuma	Persian: طاعون	Pashto: طاعون،وبا، بلا، اپت
Portuguese: peste	Romanian: ciumă	Russian: чума, мор
Slovak: mor, epidémia	Slovenian: kuga	Serbian: kuga
Swedish: pest, farsot	Thai: กาฬโรค	Turkish: veba
Taiwanese: 瘟疫(鼠疫)	Ukrainian: чума, моровиця	Urdu: طاعون
Vietnamese: bệnh dịch	Chinese: 瘟疫
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