1. Cause to suffer a blight
   - blight 
2. Annoy continually or chronically
   - harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy [non-standard], beset, molest, provoke

1. 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
   - pestilence, pest, pestis 
2. Any epidemic disease with a high death rate
   - pestilence, pest 
3. A swarm of insects that attack plants
   "a plague of grasshoppers"
   - infestation 
4. Any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) 
5. An annoyance
   "those children are a damn plague"

Derived forms: plagued, plaguing, plagues

See also: plaguey, plaguy

Type of: afflict, annoy, annoyance, bother, botheration, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, chafe, cloud, devil, disaster, epidemic disease, get at, get to, gravel [US], infliction, irritate, nark [Brit], nettle, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck, rag, rile, smite, swarm, tragedy, vex

Encyclopedia: Plague

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