|
WordNet-Online
Free dictionary and thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms and more...
Hint: double-click any word to get it searched!
Noun plague has 5 senses
- plague - 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)
--1 is a kind of epidemic disease
--1 has particulars: bubonic plague; pneumonic plague; septicemic plague
- plague, pestilence - any epidemic disease with a high death rate
--2 is a kind of epidemic disease
- infestation, plague - a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers"
--3 is a kind of swarm, cloud
- plague - any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
--4 is a kind of calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
- plague - an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"
--5 is a kind of annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass
Verb plague has 2 senses
- blight, plague - cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
--1 is one way to afflict, smite
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke - annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
--2 is one way to annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot plague Sue
|