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pestilence

English

  1. 🔊 a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
    “racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation”
  2. 🔊 any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  3. 🔊 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

Spanish

  1. 🔊 pestilencia pestilence

Similar words

canker plague pest plague pest pestis black death affliction ambulatory plague bane black death black plague blight bubonic plague bugbear burden calamity cancer canker cellulocutaneous plague crushing burden curse death defervescing plague