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plague
P p - noun plaguing an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence. 1
- noun plaguing an infectious, epidemic disease caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, characterized by fever, chills, and prostration, transmitted to humans from rats by means of the bites of fleas. Compare bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, septicemic plague. 1
- noun plaguing any widespread affliction, calamity, or evil, especially one regarded as a direct punishment by God: a plague of war and desolation. 1
- noun plaguing any cause of trouble, annoyance, or vexation: Uninvited guests are a plague. 1
- verb with object plaguing to trouble, annoy, or torment in any manner: The question of his future plagues him with doubt. 1
- verb with object plaguing to annoy, bother, or pester: Ants plagued the picnickers. 1
- verb with object plaguing to smite with a plague, pestilence, death, etc.; scourge: those whom the gods had plagued. 1
- verb with object plaguing to infect with a plague; cause an epidemic in or among: diseases that still plague the natives of Ethiopia. 1
- verb with object plaguing to afflict with any evil: He was plagued by allergies all his life. 1