plague
noun
[ pleɪɡ ]
• a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes ( bubonic plague ) and sometimes infection of the lungs ( pneumonic plague ).
• an unusually large number of insects or animals infesting a place and causing damage.
• "a plague of locusts"
• a thing causing trouble or irritation.
• "staff theft is usually the plague of restaurants"
plague
verb
• cause continual trouble or distress to.
• "he has been plagued by ill health"
Similar:
afflict,
bedevil,
cause suffering to,
torture,
torment,
trouble,
beset,
dog,
curse,
rack,
Origin:
late Middle English: Latin plaga ‘stroke, wound’, probably from Greek (Doric dialect) plaga, from a base meaning ‘strike’.
