Plague is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLAGUE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pester or annoy
• cause continual trouble or distress to
• pester or harass (someone) continually
• To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.
• Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
• cause to suffer a blight
• annoy continually or chronically
• trouble or annoy continually
NOUN:
• a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes (see bubonic plague) and sometimes infection of the lungs (pneumonic plague).
• any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people
• an unusually large number of insects or animals infesting a place and causing damage
• a thing causing trouble or irritation
• used as a curse
• fast-spreading fatal disease
• That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
• An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.
• 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
• any epidemic disease with a high death rate
• a swarm of insects that attack plants
• any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
• an annoyance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to harass or torment

Words related to PLAGUE

plagued11 plaguer10 plaguers11 plagues10 plaguing12

Words that contain PLAGUE

plagued11 plaguer10 plagues10 plaguey13 plaguers11 unplagued13 antiplague13 plaguesome15 plaguelike17 antiplagues14

How to use PLAGUE in a sentence

• If the plague of leprosy be in a man, let him be brought unto the priest, and let the priest see him.
• But, however long it may be carried, it still remains as the plague of both the Pastors and the Church.
• That is spoken of as though it were dreaded worse than smallpox, leprosy, or the plague.
• I had as live have heard the night raven, come what plague could have come after it.
• But worst of all the trouble seemed a smittal one, and even our own land began to show symptoms of the plague spot.
• A tribe I once came across some miles inland were visited by a plague of what I now feel sure must have been smallpox.
• Father Orin was still waiting for him in the desolate cabin where the Cold Plague had left the three orphans.
• Though the Gloucestershire men prohibited all intercourse between the infected port and their own villages, the plague was in no wise stayed by their precautions.
• It was a national distress not inferior to a plague or famine.
• On the brink of ruin, ravaged by plague, Pisa turned to confront her hard, merciless foe.
• Then came the plague, and then the discovery of a plot to bring back Piero.
• His second son and fellow-painter died of the same plague which struck down Titian, in 1566, at the ripe age of eighty-nine years.
• In the end they did not cross for fear of the plague, but turned up the river, and rode westwards towards St.
• Most men live only to injure and plague each other.
• A bad crop meant a famine, and a famine started a plague.
• The plague fever resembles pneumonia at an early stage.
• And woe to the land if his cross be disturbed, for then, the peasant will tell you, the cattle die of plague and the crops fail.
• Liquor is the greatest plague in a community, and does more to curse the community than any other one thing.
• In our time The Rockefeller Institute will have stamped out that slow plague of the south, the hook worm.

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