bubonic plaguenoun [ U ]
uk/bjuːˌbɒn.ɪk ˈpleɪɡ/us/bjuːˌbɑː.nɪk ˈpleɪɡ/a very infectious disease spread by rats, causing swelling, fever, and usually death. In the 14th century it killed half the people living in Europe.
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- He wrote a very clear account of the epidemic, which leaves no doubt that it was true bubonic plague.
- It carried fever-patients for the hospital at Genoa, ill of the bubonic plague.
- No precautions that sanitary science can suggest have been omitted, yet the weekly reports now show an average of twenty thousand deaths from the bubonic plague alone.
- She killed rats by the hundreds of thousands, rat-proofed her buildings, and thus, at one stroke, eliminated all fear of bubonic plague.
- The bubonic plague prevails there with a frightful mortality.