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plague - an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague" |
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annoyance,
bother,
botheration,
infliction,
pain,
pain in the ass,
pain in the neck the act of troubling or annoying someone
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colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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plague - any epidemic disease with a high death rate |
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pestilence,
pest |
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epidemic disease any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people
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plague - 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 |
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pestilence,
pest,
pestis |
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epidemic disease any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people
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bubonic plague,
glandular plague,
pestis bubonica the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person
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plague pneumonia,
pneumonic plague,
pulmonic plague a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever
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septicemic plague an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person
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plague - any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) |
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calamity,
cataclysm,
catastrophe,
disaster,
tragedy an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
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