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Words related to plague

Related / Similar Words: infestation, pestilence, harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, molest, provoke, blight

Definition:

an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague";

any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God);

a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers";

any epidemic disease with a high death rate;

a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected rat flea (especially bubonic plague);

annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers";

cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold";

Hyponyms: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, septicemic plague, needle, goad, torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, haze

Derivational Morphology: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, molest, provoke, blight, invade, overrun, infest, aggravation, irritation, provocation, instigator, provoker, inciter, instigant, firebrand, harassment, molestation, harasser, harrier, fuss, trouble, bother, infestation, pestilence

Language Translations:
Afrikaans: plaag		Albanian: murtajë
Basque: izurri		Bosnian: kuga
Bulgarian: тормози		Catalan: plaga
Chinese: 鼠疫		Croatian: kuga
Danish: pest		Dutch: plaag
Esperanto: pesto		Estonian: katk
Finnish: vitsaus		Frisian: pleach
Galician: praga		German: Plage
Greek: πανούκλα		Hebrew: מגפה
Hindi: mahamari		Hungarian: pestis
Indonesian: pes		Irish: plá
Italian: peste		Japanese: ペスト
Korean: 전염병		Kurdish: weba
Latvian: liksta		Norwegian: pest
Polish: dżuma		Portuguese: peste
Russian: чума		Serbian: kuga
Slovak: mor		Spanish: plaga
Swahili: tauni		Swedish: pest
Tagalog: pestihin		Turkish: veba
Ukrainian: чума		Vietnamese: bệnh dịch
Welsh: pla

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