Overview of noun plague

The noun plague has 5 senses

• plague, pestilence, pest, pestis -- (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)


• plague, pestilence, pest -- (any epidemic disease with a high death rate)


• infestation, plague -- (a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers")


• plague -- (any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God))


• plague -- (an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague")

Overview of verb plague

The verb plague has 2 senses

• blight, plague -- (cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold")


• harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke -- (annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers")