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plague

English

  1. 🔊 an annoyance
    “those children are a damn plague”
  2. 🔊 any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
  3. 🔊 any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  4. 🔊 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
  5. 🔊 a swarm of insects that attack plants
    “a plague of grasshoppers”
  6. 🔊 cause to suffer a blight
    “Too much rain may blight the garden with mold”
  7. 🔊 annoy continually or chronically
    “He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 peste plague
  2. 🔊 plaga plague

Similar words

infestation pestilence pest pestilence pest pestis harass hassle harry chivy chivvy chevy chevvy beset molest provoke blight afflict affliction aggravate aggravation ail ambulatory plague anguish