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Verb: plague pleyg- Cause to suffer a blight
- blight - Annoy continually or chronically
- harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy [non-standard], beset, molest, provoke
Noun: plague pleyg- 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
- pestilence, pest, pestis - Any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- pestilence, pest - A swarm of insects that attack plants
"a plague of grasshoppers"
- infestation - Any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
- An annoyance
"those children are a damn plague"
Derived forms: plagued, plaguing, plagues See also: plaguey, plaguy Type of: afflict, annoy, annoyance, bother, botheration, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, chafe, cloud, devil, disaster, epidemic disease, get at, get to, gravel [US], infliction, irritate, nark [Brit], nettle, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck, rag, rile, smite, swarm, tragedy, vex Encyclopedia: Plague |