Definitions for plague

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Spelling: [pleyg]

IPA: /pleɪg/

Plague is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in plague (aeglpu).

Definitions for plague

noun

1. an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
2. an infectious, epidemic disease caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, characterized by fever, chills, and prostration, transmitted to humans from rats by means of the bites of fleas. Compare bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, septicemic plague.
3. any widespread affliction, calamity, or evil, especially one regarded as a direct punishment by God:
4. any cause of trouble, annoyance, or vexation:
5. French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.

verb (used with object)

1. to trouble, annoy, or torment in any manner:
2. to annoy, bother, or pester:
3. to smite with a plague, pestilence, death, etc.; scourge:
4. to infect with a plague; cause an epidemic in or among:
5. to afflict with any evil:

Origin of plague

1350-1400; Middle English plage Latin plāga stripe, wound, Late Latin: pestilence

Examples for plague

A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 40 people so far, and due to antibiotic resistance, it could kill many more.

Spread happens easily, however, and epidemics are propagated when the third form of plague occurs: pneumonia plague.

They were sick-and so were the purest of their brethren—with the plague of sin.

As I described in an article over the summer when the fatal case in China was diagnosed, plague has three distinct clinical forms.

The plague made a brief appearance in China earlier this year and continues in the U.S. with a few cases annually.

All their calamities, except the plague, were the foreseen results of their own decision.

The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.

I have had the plague continually, ever since I have been here.

But as we come from the East, and as the East is the country of the plague—'

Why is violence against women central to so many of the conflicts that plague the planet today?