Word Meaning

plague definition and meaning

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.
v. t. To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.
v. t. Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.

Crossword clues for plague

- A malady
- Annoy continually
- Beset
- Black Death
- Contagious disease
- Epidemic disease
- Harass badger to black kind of death
- Middle Ages epidemic, bubonic ...
- Pandemic
- Pester
- Pester, badger
- Rash
- Serious epidemic
- Virulent outbreak