Definitions for plagues

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plagues plague

Spelling: [pleyg]

IPA: /pleɪg/

Plagues is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in plagues (aeglpsu).

Definitions for plagues

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 plagues

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

Examples for plagues

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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