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cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"

any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"

a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected rat flea (especially bubonic plague)

cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"

(informal) an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"

any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

a serious (sometimes fatal) infection transmitted by the bite of an infected rat flea (especially bubonic plague)

That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.

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

Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.

That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.

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

Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.

An acute infectious disease caused by YERSINIA PESTIS that affects humans, wild rodents, and their ectoparasites. This condition persists due to its firm entrenchment in sylvatic rodent-flea ecosystems throughout the world. Bubonic plague is the most common form.

A deadly disease; anything very troublesome or causing misery; a nuisance.

To afflict with disease or evil; annoy greatly.

Plaguy.

Pestilent fatal disease attacking a whole country, in which a great many die. (The deaths from the bubonic plague in India at time of writing this average 500 per day.).

Any great natural evil: a deadly epidemic or pestilence: anything troublesome.

To infest with disease or calamity: to trouble:-pr.p. plaguing; pa.t. and pa.p. plagued.

A Pestilence; anything troublesome.

To vex; harass.

To afflict; distress; annoy.

Anything troublesome; pestilence; calamity.

An eminently malignant disease; endemic in the Levant; frequently epidemic, and destroying at least two-thirds of those it attacks. It is a fever of the most aggravated kind, with affection of the lymphatic glands of the groins or axillae, and carbuncles. Its miasmata-it has been conceived-adhere to different organic textures, to woollen goods, clothing and furniture; and may thus be transported to a considerable distance; but this is not certain. The mean duration of the disease is six or seven days; some die in twenty-four hours, others not till ten or twelve days. Pathological anatomy has afforded little light with respect to it. Various means have been used for arresting it, but none have seemed to be pre-eminently distinguished. The great point is, to watch the indications as they develop themselves; and to treat the case, in general, like one of typhus gravior. It is universally agreed that the suppuration of the buboes should be aided as far as practicable. For preventing the importation and spread of the plague, the Quar'antine Laws have been instituted; and when the disease has actually appeared, a cordon sanitaire has been drawn round the infected district, so as to prevent all communication.

A highly contagious and fatal fever.

Any destructive pestilence; especially a specific, acute and malignant disease, epidemic malignant adenitis, otherwise known as bubonic or oriental p. It is transmitted to man from infected rodents by means of fleas, swine plague 1. See hog cholera, under cholera. 2. A disease of hogs in Europe, differing in character from the American swine p., or hog cholera, and caused by B. suisepticus. [Lat.]

n. [Latin, Greek] Any afflictive evil or calamity;—an acute, malignant, febrile disease, that often prevails in the East, and has at times raged in the large cities of Europe;—hence pestilence;—any thing troublesome or vexatious;—a state of misery.