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Meaning of 'plague'
Meaning of 'plague' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Plague 
[ n.]
- That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity;
any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. [ n.]- 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.
2. Plague [ v. t.]
- To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural
evil of any kind. [ v. t.]- Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
Meaning of 'plague' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. plague [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- a swarm of insects that attack plants
- a swarm of insects that attack plants
Example in sentence:
- a plague of grasshoppers
Meaning (2):
- an annoyance
- an annoyance
Example in sentence:
- those children are a damn plague
2. plague [ v]
[ v]Meaning (3):
- annoy continually or chronically
- annoy continually or chronically
Example in sentence:
- He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked;
- This man harasses his female co-workers
Meaning (4):
- cause to suffer a blight
- cause to suffer a blight
Example in sentence:
- Too much rain may blight the garden with mold
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