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plague

გამოთქმა: /pleɪg/

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Universal
  • 1 (usually the plague) a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes (see bubonic plague) and sometimes infection of the lungs ( pneumonic plague).
  • any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people: diseases like smallpox wiped out the indigenous people in a succession of plagues
  • 2an unusually large number of insects or animals infesting a place and causing damage:a plague of locusts
  • 3 [in singular] a thing causing trouble or irritation:staff theft is usually the plague of restaurants
  • (a plague on) archaic used as a curse:a plague on all their houses!
    [echoing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ( iii. i. 94)]

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Universal
  • cause continual trouble or distress to:he has been plagued by ill health
  • pester or harass (someone) continually:he was plaguing her with questions

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