ALL meanings of plague
plague
P p - noun plague French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus. 1
- verb with object plague to trouble, annoy, or torment in any manner: The question of his future plagues him with doubt. 1
- verb with object plague to annoy, bother, or pester: Ants plagued the picnickers. 1
- verb with object plague to smite with a plague, pestilence, death, etc.; scourge: those whom the gods had plagued. 1
- verb with object plague to infect with a plague; cause an epidemic in or among: diseases that still plague the natives of Ethiopia. 1
- verb with object plague to afflict with any evil: He was plagued by allergies all his life. 1
- noun plague disease, pestilence 1
- noun plague infestation of insects or rats 1
- noun plague epidemic 1
- noun plague sth bad and persistent 1
- transitive verb plague bother persistently 1
- countable noun plague A plague is a very infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people. 0
- uncountable noun plague Plague or the plague is a very infectious disease which usually results in death. The patient has a severe fever and swellings on his or her body. 0
- countable noun plague A plague of unpleasant things is a large number of them that arrive or happen at the same time. 0
- countable noun plague If you describe something as a plague, you mean that it causes a great deal of trouble or harm. 0
- verb plague If you are plagued by unpleasant things, they continually cause you a lot of trouble or suffering. 0
- verb plague If someone plagues you, they keep bothering you or asking you for something. 0
- noun plague any widespread and usually highly contagious disease with a high fatality rate 0
- noun plague an infectious disease of rodents, esp rats, transmitted to man by the bite of the rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) 0
- noun plague something that afflicts or harasses 0
- noun plague an annoyance or nuisance 0
- noun plague a pestilence, affliction, or calamity on a large scale, esp when regarded as sent by God 0
- noun plague used to express annoyance, disgust, etc 0
- verb plague to afflict or harass 0
- verb plague to bring down a plague upon 0
- verb plague to annoy 0
- noun plague anything that afflicts or troubles; calamity; scourge 0
- noun plague any contagious epidemic disease that is deadly; esp., bubonic plague 0
- noun plague a nuisance; annoyance 0
- noun plague any of various calamities sent down as divine punishment: Ex. 9:14, Num. 16:46 0
- verb transitive plague to afflict with a plague 0
- verb transitive plague to vex; harass; trouble; torment 0