Plague ¹

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

Plague ²

Definition: 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.

Plague ³

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

Plague ⁴

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

plague ⁵

Definition: an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"

plague ⁶

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

plague ⁷

Definition: a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers"

plague ⁸

Definition: any epidemic disease with a high death rate

plague ⁹

Definition: 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)

plague ¹⁰

Definition: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"

plague ¹¹

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