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noun
1.
an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
2.
an infectious, epidemic disease caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, characterized by fever, chills, and prostration, transmitted to humans from rats by means of the bites of fleas. Compare bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, septicemic plague.
3.
any widespread affliction, calamity, or evil, especially one regarded as a direct punishment by God: a plague of war and desolation.
4.
any cause of trouble, annoyance, or vexation: Uninvited guests are a plague.
verb (used with object)
5.
to trouble, annoy, or torment in any manner: The question of his future plagues him with doubt.
6.
to annoy, bother, or pester: Ants plagued the picnickers.
7.
to smite with a plague, pestilence, death, etc.; scourge: those whom the gods had plagued.
8.
to infect with a plague; cause an epidemic in or among: diseases that still plague the natives of Ethiopia.
9.
to afflict with any evil: He was plagued by allergies all his life.
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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English plage < Latin plāga stripe, wound, Late Latin: pestilence
1350–1400; Middle English plage < Latin plāga stripe, wound, Late Latin: pestilence
Related forms
pla·guer, noun
an·ti·plague, noun, adjective
un·plagued, adjective
Synonyms
4. nuisance, bother, torment. 6. harass, vex, harry, hector, fret, worry, badger, irritate, disturb. See bother.
4. nuisance, bother, torment. 6. harass, vex, harry, hector, fret, worry, badger, irritate, disturb. See bother.
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Word Origin & History
plague
1382, "affliction, calamity, evil, scourge," also "malignant disease," from M.Fr. plague, from L.L. plaga, used in Vulgate for "pestilence," from L. plaga "stroke, wound," probably from root of plangere "to strike, lament (by beating the breast)," from or cognate with Gk. (Doric) plaga "blow," from PIE
EXPAND*plag- "hit" (cf. O.E. flocan "to strike, beat," Goth. flokan "to bewail," Ger. fluchen, O.Fris. floka "to curse"). O.Ir. plag (gen. plaige) "plague, pestilence" is from L. Specifically in ref. to "bubonic plague" from 1601. The verb is from 1481; in the sense of "bother, annoy" it is first recorded 1594. Plaguey "vexatious" is attested from 1615.
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Medical Dictionary
plague (plāg)
n.
A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.
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Cultural Dictionary
plague [(playg)]A highly contagious disease, such as bubonic plague, that spreads quickly throughout a population and causes widespread sickness and death.
Note: The term is also used to refer to widespread outbreaks of many kinds, such as a “plague of locusts.”
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