| Definitions of 'plague' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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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"
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| Definitions of 'plague' |
Webster Dictionary |
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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
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| Definitions of 'plague' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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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.
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