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- [pleyg]
- /pleɪg/
- /pleɪɡ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [pleyg]
- /pleɪg/
Definitions of plague word
- noun plague French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus. 1
- verb with object plague to trouble, annoy, or torment in any manner: The question of his future plagues him with doubt. 1
- verb with object plague to annoy, bother, or pester: Ants plagued the picnickers. 1
- verb with object plague to smite with a plague, pestilence, death, etc.; scourge: those whom the gods had plagued. 1
- verb with object plague to infect with a plague; cause an epidemic in or among: diseases that still plague the natives of Ethiopia. 1
- verb with object plague to afflict with any evil: He was plagued by allergies all his life. 1
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Origin of plague
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; Middle English plage < Latin plāga stripe, wound, Late Latin: pestilence
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Parts of speech for Plague
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adjective
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plague popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
plague usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for plague
noun plague
- abomination — If you say that something is an abomination, you think that it is completely unacceptable.
- affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
- antibodies — any of numerous Y -shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, each molecule and its clones having a unique binding site that can combine with the complementary site of a foreign antigen, as on a virus or bacterium, thereby disabling the antigen and signaling other immune defenses. Abbreviation: Ab.
- antibody — Antibodies are substances which a person's or an animal's body produces in their blood in order to destroy substances which carry disease.
- bacilli — bacillus
verb plague
- afflict — If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
- anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
- annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- argufy — to argue or quarrel, esp over something trivial
- arm-twist — to subject to arm-twisting: The unions arm-twisted the government into negotiating by threatening widespread strikes.
adj plague
- crawler — A crawler is a computer program that visits websites and collects information when you do an Internet search.
- filler — an aluminum coin of Hungary, the 100th part of a forint.
- harrier — one of a breed of medium-sized hounds, used, usually in packs, in hunting.
- infest — to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do: Sharks infested the coastline.
adjective plague
- worrier — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
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