- an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- 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.
- any widespread affliction, calamity, or evil, especially one regarded as a direct punishment by God: a plague of war and desolation.
- any cause of trouble, annoyance, or vexation: Uninvited guests are a plague.
- to trouble, annoy, or torment in any manner: The question of his future plagues him with doubt.
- to annoy, bother, or pester: Ants plagued the picnickers.
- to smite with a plague, pestilence, death, etc.; scourge: those whom the gods had plagued.
- to infect with a plague; cause an epidemic in or among: diseases that still plague the natives of Ethiopia.
- to afflict with any evil: He was plagued by allergies all his life.
- any widespread and usually highly contagious disease with a high fatality rate
- an infectious disease of rodents, esp rats, transmitted to man by the bite of the rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis)
- See bubonic plague
- something that afflicts or harasses
- an annoyance or nuisance
- a pestilence, affliction, or calamity on a large scale, esp when regarded as sent by God
- used to express annoyance, disgust, etc
- to afflict or harass
- to bring down a plague upon
- to annoy
