Definition of murrain in English:

murrain

noun ˈmʌrɪnˈmərən

1mass noun Redwater fever or a similar infectious disease affecting cattle or other animals.
2archaic A plague, epidemic, or crop blight.
Example sentencesExamples
- Whole villages, ruined by murrains, pests, fires, or raids of new immigrants, were often abandoned by their inhabitants, who went anywhere in search of new abodes.
- Crop failures in 1315, 1316, and 1321, largely due to exceptionally wet summers, overlapped with catastrophic losses of animals as disease - ‘murrain’ - devastated the nation's sheep flocks between 1313 and 1317 and its cattle 1319-21.
- He told him of the plague of the first born, of darkness, of hail and birds, lice, frogs, flies, the plague of blood, the plague of murrain - one plague for each day.
- There were great murrains, or diseases, of sheep and cattle, which meant that the animals all died, adding to the misery of the starving people.
- The more mystically-minded clerics and chroniclers may have been confounded in their dire predictions of murrains, pestilence, and the imminent Second Coming (a comet sighted around 996 had been thought particularly propitious), but though Armageddon did not materialise, the reality was scarcely less awful.
Synonyms
disease, sickness
1. 2.1 The potato blight during the Irish famine in the mid 19th century.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French morine, based on Latin mori 'to die'.

Definition of murrain in US English:

murrain

nounˈmərənˈmərən

1An infectious disease, especially babesiosis, affecting cattle or other animals.
2archaic A plague, epidemic, or crop blight.
Example sentencesExamples
- Crop failures in 1315, 1316, and 1321, largely due to exceptionally wet summers, overlapped with catastrophic losses of animals as disease - ‘murrain’ - devastated the nation's sheep flocks between 1313 and 1317 and its cattle 1319-21.
- He told him of the plague of the first born, of darkness, of hail and birds, lice, frogs, flies, the plague of blood, the plague of murrain - one plague for each day.
- Whole villages, ruined by murrains, pests, fires, or raids of new immigrants, were often abandoned by their inhabitants, who went anywhere in search of new abodes.
- The more mystically-minded clerics and chroniclers may have been confounded in their dire predictions of murrains, pestilence, and the imminent Second Coming (a comet sighted around 996 had been thought particularly propitious), but though Armageddon did not materialise, the reality was scarcely less awful.
- There were great murrains, or diseases, of sheep and cattle, which meant that the animals all died, adding to the misery of the starving people.
Synonyms
disease, sickness

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French morine, based on Latin mori ‘to die’.

单词	murrain
释义	Definition of murrain in English: murrain noun ˈmʌrɪnˈmərən 1mass noun Redwater fever or a similar infectious disease affecting cattle or other animals. 2archaic A plague, epidemic, or crop blight. Example sentencesExamples Whole villages, ruined by murrains, pests, fires, or raids of new immigrants, were often abandoned by their inhabitants, who went anywhere in search of new abodes. Crop failures in 1315, 1316, and 1321, largely due to exceptionally wet summers, overlapped with catastrophic losses of animals as disease - ‘murrain’ - devastated the nation's sheep flocks between 1313 and 1317 and its cattle 1319-21. He told him of the plague of the first born, of darkness, of hail and birds, lice, frogs, flies, the plague of blood, the plague of murrain - one plague for each day. There were great murrains, or diseases, of sheep and cattle, which meant that the animals all died, adding to the misery of the starving people. The more mystically-minded clerics and chroniclers may have been confounded in their dire predictions of murrains, pestilence, and the imminent Second Coming (a comet sighted around 996 had been thought particularly propitious), but though Armageddon did not materialise, the reality was scarcely less awful. Synonyms disease, sickness 2.1 The potato blight during the Irish famine in the mid 19th century. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French morine, based on Latin mori 'to die'. Definition of murrain in US English: murrain nounˈmərənˈmərən 1An infectious disease, especially babesiosis, affecting cattle or other animals. 2archaic A plague, epidemic, or crop blight. Example sentencesExamples Crop failures in 1315, 1316, and 1321, largely due to exceptionally wet summers, overlapped with catastrophic losses of animals as disease - ‘murrain’ - devastated the nation's sheep flocks between 1313 and 1317 and its cattle 1319-21. He told him of the plague of the first born, of darkness, of hail and birds, lice, frogs, flies, the plague of blood, the plague of murrain - one plague for each day. Whole villages, ruined by murrains, pests, fires, or raids of new immigrants, were often abandoned by their inhabitants, who went anywhere in search of new abodes. The more mystically-minded clerics and chroniclers may have been confounded in their dire predictions of murrains, pestilence, and the imminent Second Coming (a comet sighted around 996 had been thought particularly propitious), but though Armageddon did not materialise, the reality was scarcely less awful. There were great murrains, or diseases, of sheep and cattle, which meant that the animals all died, adding to the misery of the starving people. Synonyms disease, sickness Origin Late Middle English: from Old French morine, based on Latin mori ‘to die’.
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