plague
Nouns
- (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 pest, pestilence, pestis,
- (n) any epidemic disease with a high death rate pest, pestilence,
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(n) a swarm of insects that attack plants
- a plague of grasshoppers
- (n) any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
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(n) an annoyance
- those children are a damn plague
Verbs
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(v) cause to suffer a blight
- Too much rain may blight the garden with mold
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(v) annoy continually or chronically
- He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked
- This man harasses his female co-workers