英语词汇“pestilence”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Pestilence means a deadly and overwhelming disease that affects an entire community. The Black Plague, a disease that killed over thirty percent of Europe's population, was certainly a pestilence.

Pestilence is also one of the four Horseman of the Apocalypse in the book of Revelation (which is part of The Bible). When pestilence rides into town, you want to be somewhere far, far away. Whereas a person gets the flue, a nation experiences a pestilence. A disease that causes widespread crop damage or animal deaths can also be called a pestilence.

WORD FAMILY

pestilence: pestilences, pestilential+/pestilent: pestilence, pestilently/pestilential: pestilentially

USAGE EXAMPLES

The streets were torn up and gridlocked during the construction, which unleashed a pestilence of rats through the neighborhood.

Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017)

Those acts of hate that you heard about were just 2016’s general pestilence at work, and 2016 will be over.

Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016)

It’s a pestilence — one whose repugnant views Trump has invited into his White House.

Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016)

1n any epidemic disease with a high death rate

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pest, plague

epidemic disease

any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people

2n 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

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pest, pestis, plague

bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica

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

plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague

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

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

epidemic disease

any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people

3n a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of

racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation

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canker

influence

a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do

单词	pestilence
释义	pestilence (once / 1143 pages) n Pestilence means a deadly and overwhelming disease that affects an entire community. The Black Plague, a disease that killed over thirty percent of Europe's population, was certainly a pestilence. Pestilence is also one of the four Horseman of the Apocalypse in the book of Revelation (which is part of The Bible). When pestilence rides into town, you want to be somewhere far, far away. Whereas a person gets the flue, a nation experiences a pestilence. A disease that causes widespread crop damage or animal deaths can also be called a pestilence. WORD FAMILY pestilence: pestilences, pestilential+/pestilent: pestilence, pestilently/pestilential: pestilentially USAGE EXAMPLES The streets were torn up and gridlocked during the construction, which unleashed a pestilence of rats through the neighborhood. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) Those acts of hate that you heard about were just 2016’s general pestilence at work, and 2016 will be over. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) It’s a pestilence — one whose repugnant views Trump has invited into his White House. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) 1n any epidemic disease with a high death rate Syn\|Hyper pest, plague epidemic disease any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people 2n 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 Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper pest, pestis, plague bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica 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 plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague 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 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 epidemic disease any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people 3n a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation Syn\|Hyper canker influence a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do
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