Synonym: annoy, badger, bother, disease, epidemic, harass, haunt, molest, pester, pestilence, torment, trouble, vex, worry. Similar words: vague, league, colleague, plagiarize, coagulate, flag, jet lag, guest. Meaning: [pleɪg] n. 1. 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 2. any epidemic disease with a high death rate 3. a swarm of insects that attack plants 4. any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) 5. an annoyance. v. 1. cause to suffer a blight 2. annoy continually or chronically.
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61. He died in 1167 of plague after the defeat of the army near Tusculum.
62. The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague.
63. Meanwhile she was not to set foot outside the door, as a plague of field-mice infested the estate.
64. This may contain phosphates, sulphates and nitrates in abundance - enough to start a green algae plague.
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65. Paracelsus made intractable problems such as plague, syphilis, epilepsy, mental disorder, and learning disabilities central to his preoccupations.
66. Hip fractures, which especially plague older women, are the most serious fall injury for seniors.
67. Alice Foley, growing up in Bolton during the 1890s, remembered the plague of houseflies emanating from the privies in summer.
68. But if you just want to use your computer for word-processing or web-surfing, avoid it like the plague.
69. The risk of another plague of negative equity in the highly-priced areas must now be significant.
70. He died in 1349, probably of the plague known as the Black Death.
71. Hisey said rodents can carry bubonic plague and other diseases and attract fleas.
72. I guess I have avoided it like the plague, without much wanting to admit my cowardice.
73. But this plague does not have an incubation time of days: it will spread in instants too small to measure.
74. Global incidences of cholera, tuberculosis, diphtheria and bubonic plague have all increased significantly in the last five years.
75. I was not comfortable talking to kids, particularly boys, and I avoided the older ones like the plague.
76. Elsewhere, typhus carried off many who had been weakened by starvation; in Chesterfield the pestilence was almost certainly bubonic plague.
77. Picked out in silhouette is a swarm, a veritable plague, of humanity.
78. In Nogykanizsa, half population is wipe out by plague only one years after building the cathedral.
79. Bubonic plague is not directly associated with water, but the rats which carried it arrived by boat at riverside wharves.
80. Yet the final image of him working with plague victims transforms him into a heroic character.
81. During the plague, the rich people and most of the ministers who had remained in the established church fled from London.
82. Waller's double-glazing business was caught up in the plague when hooligans set his small factory on fire.
83. Why is it that we in this great nation consistently fail to grasp the deep-seated social and economic problems that plague us?
84. Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague.
85. But before it could happen fate cast a plague on both houses.
86. You know, the ones about the bubonic plague and all that.
87. A wild cat passes near, somebody spots a yak, there is talk of a new plague of wolves.
88. A plague of cholera broke out, causing sixty deaths in the first week.
89. The voters are saying a plague on both your houses.
90. And had not that song passed like a plague virus to every one of his fellow men in succeeding generations?