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

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