Plague
[pleɪg] or [pleɡ]
Definition
(noun.) an annoyance; 'those children are a damn plague'.
(noun.) any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God).
(noun.) any epidemic disease with a high death rate.
(noun.) 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.
Editor: Yvonne--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.
(v. t.) Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Pestilence, pest.[2]. Affliction; annoyance, vexation, trouble, nuisance, curse, torment, thorn in one's side.
v. a. Annoy, tease, vex, worry, trouble, molest, torment, harass, harry, disturb, fret, gall, chafe, bore, incommode, bother, pester, badger, hector, irritate, disquiet.
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Definition
n. any great natural evil: a deadly disease or pestilence: a very troublesome person or thing esp. a malignant kind of contagious fever prevailing epidemically characterised by buboes or swellings of the lymphatic glands by carbuncles and petechi?—v.t. to infest with disease or trouble: to harass or annoy:—pr.p. plāg′uing; pa.t. and pa.p. plāgued.—ns. Plague′-mark -spot a mark or spot of plague or foul disease: a place where disease is constantly present; Plag′uer one who plagues vexes or annoys; Plague′-sore.—adv. Plag′uily vexatiously.—adj. Plaguy (plā′gi) vexatious: (Shak.) troublesome.—adv. vexatiously.—Plague on may a curse rest on.—Be at the plague to be at the trouble.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a plague raging, denotes disappointing returns in business, and your wife or lover will lead you a wretched existence. If you are afflicted with the plague, you will keep your business out of embarrassment with the greatest maneuvering. If you are trying to escape it, some trouble, which looks impenetrable, is pursuing you.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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Examples
- Where was the plague? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- France, Germany, Italy and Spain, were interposed, walls yet without a breach, between us and the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She would wander out at night to get food, and returned home, pleased that she had met no one, that she was in no danger from the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The physician declared that he died of the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They were afraid of Egyptian plague and cholera. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What a plague those creatures are--staring at me so! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was whispered that he had died of the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- If you have plagued him, he's sober and walks slowly, as if he wanted to go back and do his work better. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The case is, that I cannot be plagued with this child, any longer! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Was she as much plagued as herself to get tolerable servants? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- They are not in trouble like other men, neither are they plagued like other men. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I don't know anything about your plagued French! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I believe that more of my ill health is caused by them than by any one thing; and ours, I know, are the very worst that ever anybody was plagued with. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I won't be deceived and plagued and made a fool of. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- This is considered as a privileged place, and stands like the land of Goshen amid the plagues of Egypt. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Your house is so full of these little plagues, now, that a body can't set down their foot without treading on 'em. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The God sends down his angry plagues from high, Famine and pestilence in heaps they die. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Agriculture must have declined, and the population notably decreased through the plagues and distresses from which it had suffered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is like one of those plagues the priests tell us of. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- These two classes are the plagues of every city in which they are generated, being what phlegm and bile are to the body. Plato. The Republic.
- She was a poor, empty-headed, spiritless woman--what you call a born drudge--and I was now and then not averse to plaguing her by taking Anne away. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My cousins have been so plaguing me! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Begin to do something now by not plaguing his life out, said Meg sharply. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And he jumped on the bus, and I saw his ugly face leering at me with a wicked smile to think how he'd had the last word of plaguing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There's nothing I like better than plaguing you--you're so like your mother, and I must do without it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The men got in the habit of plaguing him; and, finally, one day he said to the assembled experimenters in the top room of the laboratory: 'The next man that does it, I will kill him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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