Plague

What do we mean by plague?

A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease; a pestilence. noun

A virulent, infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis (syn. Pasteurella pestis) and is transmitted primarily by the bite of fleas from an infected rodent, especially a rat. In humans it occurs in bubonic form, marked by lymph node enlargement, and in pneumonic form, marked by infection of the lungs, and can progress to septicemia. noun

A widespread affliction or calamity seen as divine retribution. noun

An influx or large number of destructive or unwanted things, especially animals. noun

Something that causes persistent hardship, trouble, or annoyance. noun

To pester or annoy persistently or incessantly. synonym: harass. transitive verb

To cause suffering or hardship for. transitive verb

To be a widespread or continuous problem or defect in. transitive verb

To vex; harass; trouble; annoy; tease.

To infest with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.

Synonyms Torment, Worry, etc. (see tease), gall, bore.

To afflict.

A blow or calamity; severe trouble or vexation; also, one who or that which troubles or vexes, or ravages or destroys. noun

Any epidemic disease of high mortality. noun

As an expletive with the article the, used like the devil, the deuce, etc. Compare devil, 7. noun

To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind. transitive verb

(often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.

An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.

A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.

A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.

Collective noun for common grackles

1) A serious and spreading sickness. 2) A serious and spreading problem. 3) That which is borne by the PlagueBearer. Urban Dictionary

A variation of the word 'sick', as in awesome, cool, tight, etc. 'bubonic' may also be used in place of plague Urban Dictionary

An illness that wipes large numbers of living organisms out of existance. Urban Dictionary

A term to define a crowd of negative, hateful, vindictive, malicious, abusive, people who have no concept of kindness, consideration, or "Harm None", despite the number of "Wiccans" in the actual crowd. See lemmings, sheep, queen, clannie, spellchecker, guinness, cancer. Urban Dictionary

In a historical context, the plague often refers to the bubonic plague or "black death", also known as pestilence, which wiped out large portions of the population of Europe and Asia during the 14th and 15th centuries in a modern vernacular context, the plague refers to someone being out with illness, most often a chest cold or flu, usually exaggerating the extent of one's illness while demonstrating their incapacity Urban Dictionary

A sickly and unidentifiable disease brought on by chronic marijuana use. Often augmented by nasty ass Whitman "beeshe(s)" and regularly going twenty deep. Urban Dictionary

Plague, The mass recruited Arma 3 Olympus gang that commonly sits on Server 2 all day and get wiped by Synthetic Urban Dictionary

Contrary to common misconception this infact means very good or amazing. One is often amazed at the amazingness of something when using this phrase. Urban Dictionary

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Contrary to common misconception this infact means very good or amazing. One is often amazed at the amazingness of something when using this phrase. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to plague:
plague, plaque, blague, plage, prague, plaguy, plagae, clague, lague, olague, poague.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word plague:
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Words that rhyme with plague:
vague, craig, hague, haig, nouvelle vague, baig, sprague, the hague, flaig, laphroaig, begue, sauerteig, mctague, amoskeag, maciag, mccague, mccaig, mckaig, mcquaig, nest-egg, rague.

Adjectives that are often used to describe plague:
bubonic, great, pneumonic, terrible, black, white, last, dreadful, deadly, greatest, tenth, sylvatic, devastating, septicemic, egyptian, swine, primary, red, third, yellow, veritable, gay, severe, emotional, seventh, cattle, moral, worst, anti, sixth, oriental, ninth, septicaemic, epidemic, fourth, fearful, fifth, horrible, perfect, rodent, worse, fowl, fatal, biblical, awful, rat, virulent, mysterious, eighth, universal, endemic, destructive, grievous, athenian, medieval, pre, disastrous, frightful, asiatic, purple, chronic, century, locust, perpetual, sudden, called, crayfish, borne, evil.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective plague:
spot, spots, pit, time, bacilli, water, measures, year, deaths, patients, period, pneumonia, years, wind, demon, epidemics, sores, god, victims, houses, cloud, levels, ship, pits, hospital, stricken, bacteria, cart, patient, carriers, bacillus, mark, cases, boils, house, goblins, era, epidemic, rats, vaccination, inoculation, campaign, infection, germs, breeding, swarms, nurse, stone, churches, carrier, england, spreaders, smitten, boil, prevention, new, society, outbreaks, germ, regulations, vaccine, meningitis, church, bringing, vaccines, picture, operations, rates, banner, corpses, immunization, essentials, inoculations, economy, serum, buboes, pestis, scare, doctors, doctor, bearers, saint, hospitals, spread, burials, season, stroke, the, united, survivors, frets, hunting, saints.

Consonant match to plague:
plug, plog, plagge.

Words that sound like plague:
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