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Meaning plague meaning

What does plague mean?
Definitions in simple English

plague Noun

— A plague is a contagious bacterial disease which causes fever and delirium. — A plague is an unusual number of insects or animals infesting a place and causing damage.

plague Verb

— If something is plagued, it is constantly affected by problems. is plagued with aircraft delays.

plague

— verb (= blight) cause to suffer a blight Too much rain may blight the garden with mold — verb (= harass, harry) annoy continually or chronically He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked This man harasses his female co-workers — noun any epidemic disease with a high death rate — noun (= pestis) 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 — noun any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) — noun an annoyance those children are a damn plague — noun a swarm of insects that attack plants a plague of grasshoppers

Synonyms plague synonyms

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plague English » English

pestilence epidemic pest scourge torment pester bother harass trouble calamity blight hassle harry distress disaster curse black death annoy afflict worry tease smite outbreak oppress evil beset vex temptation by the evil doer sickness rag rack provoke prey upon prey pestis persecute obstructor nag murrain molest mock infestation infectious disease harm great nuisance epidemic disease enemy dun chivy chivvy

Topics plague topics

What do people use plague to talk about?
Person Healthy

Disease
Person Healthy

Sick
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Disaster
Universe, creation Animal

Animal group
Work and occupation Agriculture Harvest

Crop failure

Conjugation plague conjugation

How do you conjugate plague?

plague · verb

Examples plague examples

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Simple sentences

The plague occurred that year.
Thousands of people died during the plague.
For some reason, people have been avoiding me like the plague ever since I got back from India.
If you don't start treating people with a little more respect, people may start avoiding you like the plague.
Tom has been avoiding me like the plague ever since he broke my glasses.
Tom has been avoiding me like the plague ever since he borrowed my car.
The plague has devastated entire cities.
The United States faced a Bubonic plague epidemic at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Their first daughter died from the plague in 1576.
On July 16, 1439, King Henry VI banned kissing in England to curtail the spread of the plague.
Mice carry the plague.
The plague came from the swamp.
Dentists recommend to change toothbrushes every three months, because over time their bristles become worse at getting rid of plague, as well as accumulate microbes.

Movie subtitles

The ravages of the Black Death, the bubonic plague that had devastated Europe in the early 1 4th century, had reduced the city's population to around 40,000, less than a 20th the size of Nanjing's.
And the plague breaks out.
Day and night the stakes were burning, so that the plague wouldn't rise.
The victims of the plague.
Where the plague claimed its victims, Medardus was to be found, too.
Now Medardus felt that he, too, carried the germ of the plague.
The witch madness, like a spiritual plague, ravages wherever these judges go.
Plague.
A plague epidemic has broken out in Transylvania and in the Black Sea ports of Varna and Galaz.
The Dardanelles have been closed to all ships suspected of carrying the plague.
Danger of plague.
Be it hereby decreed that the municipal authorities forbid the citizenry to transport the suspected plague-stricken to the hospital, as this shall only spread the plague through the streets of our town.
Even leprosy or the plague.
The plague upon you!
Why dost thou scourge mankind with War, Plague, Famine?
To find a cure for the Plague, Faust spent day and night in prayer with God.
You plague, bother, and save, and all of a sudden you're dead.
The early scripts were quite faithful to Wylie's novel, except that Garrett Fort modified the invisible cholera to invisible rats carrying bubonic plague.
It's plague.
They call it the white plague.
That's why the plague came.
If it were plague, your whole body would turn black.
It is macula marmorea. That is why it is known as the white plague. Although we simply call it Cheng's Disease or Morbus Chengi after Doctor Cheng who had first described several cases in a Pei-Pin hospital.
Professor, I am what you call a doctor for the poor and I've had many cases, especially lately when the white plague is spreading.
If someone gets the white plague, away with him.
I can cure the white plague.
Plague. A plague epidemic has broken out in Transylvania and in the Black Sea ports of Varna and Galaz.
The people who knew him before. Learning that his fortune was not legitimate. Would flee from him, as from a plague.
This plague-ridden concoction, you swindler!
I'd sooner have a plague of locusts.
Looks like I got the plague, don't it?
Rumor has it the village is plague striken.
M. Ricomet told me he has the plague!

News and current affairs

Indeed, it is humbling to remember that some of history's most deadly invasions were carried out by single-cell organisms, such as cholera, bubonic plague, and tuberculosis.
STANFORD - While central governments' fiscal problems plague many economies, a parallel crisis is enveloping many subnational governments around the world.
It's almost as if China possessed a cure for the bubonic plague in the 14th century, but decided to stand by and watch as Europe succumbed to the Black Death.
Fear of inflation, when viewed in the context of a possible global depression, is like worrying about getting the measles when one is in danger of getting the plague.
Likewise, restrictions and ambiguities continue to plague the institutional arrangements sought by the framers of the country's political and electoral reforms.
Preventable and treatable diseases plague the population.
But even with all the difficulties of corruption and inefficiency that will no doubt plague its actual implementation, our proposal is superior to the status quo.
BUDAPEST - The re-run of the Greek parliamentary election on June 17 is only the latest symptom of the most serious crisis to plague Western democracies and open societies since the 1960's.
Even in countries like Tunisia and Egypt, where the transition to democracy is more advanced, political uncertainty has tended to plague economic achievements.
In short, genuine security in the wake of a plague of suicidal terrorists demands that we, too, display a willingness for self-sacrifice in the interest of undercutting support for those who hate the community to be secured.
Their thoughts retrace the economic thinking of over fifty years ago, a time when economists concluded that the thing to do with deflation was to avoid it like the plague.
Within Russia, historically, there are only two forces that would seek to stand against this looming political plague: the intelligentsia and the army.
Moreover, while interstate conflict has been declining, intrastate conflict driven by youthful populations, identity politics, and scarce resources will continue to plague some regions like the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.
But the constitutional convention, too, must be elected, and this election may run into the very difficulties that plague first elections to parliaments in new democracies.
Second, in order to understand how to cope with the problems that plague us - from terrorism to nuclear proliferation - it is sensible to know how and whence they emerged.
Consider basic foodstuffs. Rising food prices plague most of Asia, while Russia's potential for expanding grain output is enormous.
Isn't lawlessness the plague we are finally trying to eradicate in Cambodia?
In mid-December Putin held his annual dinner with the oligarchs - a feast in a time of plague, so to speak.
The natural reaction to any plague is panic.
However, thanks to a simple but ingenious innovation by an emerging bioscience company, those numbers could become a relic of the past, like mortality from smallpox and bubonic plague.
These worries plague people of all incomes, ages, and in all countries.

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