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   plague

   /plāɡ/

   noun

   • 1. a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes (bubonic plague) and sometimes infection of the lungs (pneumonic plague): "an outbreak of plague"
   • ▪ a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people. Similar diseasesicknessbubonic plaguepneumonic plaguethe Black Deathcontagious diseasecontagionepidemicpandemicarchaic:pestilencethe pestmurrain
   • ▪ an unusually large number of insects or animals infesting a place and causing damage: "a plague of fleas" Similar huge numberinfestationepidemicinvasioninfluxswarmmultitudehost
   • ▪ a thing causing trouble or irritation: "staff theft is usually the plague of restaurants" Similar banecursescourgeafflictionblightcancercanker
   • ▪ used as a curse or an expression of despair or disgust: "a plague on all their houses!"

   verb

   • 1. cause continual trouble or distress to: "he has been plagued by ill health" Similar afflictbedevilcause suffering totorturetormenttroublebesetdogcurserack
   • ▪ pester or harass (someone) continually: "he was plaguing her with questions" Similar pesterharassbadgerbothertormentpersecutebedevilharryhounddisturbtroublebe a nuisance tokeep afterirritateworrynagannoyvexmolestmitherinformal:hasslebugaggravategive someone a hard timedrive up the walldrive around the benddevilride

   Word Origin late Middle English: Latinplaga ‘stroke, wound’, probably from Greek (Doric dialect) plaga, from a base meaning ‘strike’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. plaguesome adjective

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   plague. noun [ C or U ] uk / pleɪɡ / us / pleɪɡ / C2 (also the plague, the Plague) a serious disease that kills many people, often used to refer to bubonic plague, a very infectious disease caused by bacteria spread mainly by fleas (= small insects that bite) on rats or other animals, that causes swelling, fever, and usually death in humans :

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   noun. /pleɪɡ/. /pleɪɡ/. Idioms. . (also the plague) (also bubonic plague) [uncountable] a disease spread by rats that causes a high temperature, swellings (= areas that are larger and rounder than usual) on the body and usually death. a decline in population following outbreaks of plague.

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    How to pronounce plague in English. The definition of plague is: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally...

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    : a virulent contagious febrile disease that is caused by a bacterium of the genus Yersinia (Y. pestis synonym Pasteurella pestis), that occurs in bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic forms, and that is usually transmitted from rats to humans by the bite of infected fleas (as in bubonic plague) or directly from person to person (as in pneumonic ...