DEF: 1. serious disease that kills many people. 2. to annoy someone, especially by asking repeated questions 3. a large number of things that are unpleasant or likely to cause damage
EX:
1.Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The Black Death is widely believed to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
2.Fake Bitcoin trading volumes continue to plague the crypto industry
3.New Zealand’s worsening wallaby plague, they multiply rapidly and cause a lot of damages.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
plague (noun)1.
a) a disastrous evil or affliction - calamity
b) a destructively numerous influx - a plague of locusts
2.
a) an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality - pestilence
b) a virulent contagious febrile disease that is caused by a bacterium () and that occurs in bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic forms - Yersinia pestis called also black death
3.
a) a cause of irritation - nuisance
b) a sudden unwelcome outbreak - a plague of burglaries
transitive verb
1.
to smite, infest, or afflict with or as if with disease, calamity, or natural evil
2.
a) to cause worry or distress to - hamper burden
b) to disturb or annoy persistently worry
