plague
1. a swarm of insects that attack plants
- a plague of grasshoppers
• Syn:
infestation
• Derivationally related forms:
infest (for: infestation)
• Hypernyms:
swarm, cloud
2. 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:
pestilence, pest, pestis
• Hypernyms:
epidemic disease
• Hyponyms:
bubonic plague, pestis bubonica, glandular plague, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague,
plague pneumonia, septicemic plague
3. any epidemic disease with a high death rate
• Syn:
pestilence, pest
• Derivationally related forms:
pestilential (for: pestilence), pestilent (for: pestilence), plaguey
• Hypernyms:
epidemic disease
4. any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
• Hypernyms:
calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
5. an annoyance
- those children are a damn plague
• Derivationally related forms:
plaguy, plaguey
• Usage Domain:
colloquialism
• Hypernyms:
annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction,
pain in the neck, pain in the ass
1. cause to suffer a blight (Freq. 6)
- Too much rain may blight the garden with mold
• Syn:
blight
• Derivationally related forms:
blight (for: blight)
• Hypernyms:
afflict, smite
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. annoy continually or chronically (Freq. 2)
- He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked
- This man harasses his female co-workers
• Syn:
harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy,
chevy, chevvy, beset, molest, provoke
• Derivationally related forms:
provocative (for: provoke), provocation (for: provoke), provoker (for: provoke), molestation (for: molest), harrier (for: harry), hassle (for: hassle), harasser (for: harass), harassment (for: harass)
• Hypernyms:
annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at,
irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex,
chafe, devil
• Hyponyms:
needle, goad, torment, rag, bedevil,
crucify, dun, frustrate, haze
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Sam cannot plague Sue
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