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