PLAGUE

Definition:

1. [noun] a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected rat flea (especially bubonic plague)
   
   
2. [noun] any epidemic disease with a high death rate
   Synonyms: pestilence
   
   
3. [noun] a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers"
   Synonyms: infestation
   
   
4. [noun] any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
   
   
5. [noun] an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"
   
   
6. [verb] cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
   Synonyms: blight
   
   
7. [verb] annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
   Synonyms: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, molest, provoke
   
   

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Related Words:

• needle, goad
• torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
• haze
• bubonic plague
• pneumonic plague
• septicemic plague

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