| plague spot | a spot on the skin characteristic of the plague |
| plague a | an annoyance, those children are a damn plague |
| plague | any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) |
tin pest
tin disease
tin plague | the transformation of ordinary white tin into powdery grey tin at very cold temperatures |
infestation
plague | a swarm of insects that attack plants, a plague of grasshoppers |
drug addiction
white plague | an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug) |
plague pestilence
pest | any epidemic disease with a high death rate |
plague
pestilence pest pestis | 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 |
bubonic plague
pestis bubonica
glandular plague | 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 |
ambulant plague
ambulatory plague
pestis ambulans | a mild form of bubonic plague |
Black Death
Black Plague | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe |
pneumonic plague
pulmonic plague
plague pneumonia | 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 |
| 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 |
pulmonary tuberculosis
consumption
phthisis
wasting disease
white plague | involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body |
rinderpest
cattle plague | an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal), characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes |
b harass
hassle
harry
chivy
chivvy
chevy
chevvy
beset
plague
molest
provoke bbba | annoy continually or chronically, He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked, This man harasses his female co-workers |
blight
plague | cause to suffer a blight, Too much rain may blight the garden with mold |
septic
infected | containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms, a septic sore throat, a septic environment, septic sewage |