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plague

/pleɪɡ/ · 6 letters · 6 distinct letters

  1. verb

    cause to suffer a blight

    Too much rain may blight the garden with mold

  2. verb

    annoy continually or chronically

    He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked

  3. noun

    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

  4. noun

    any epidemic disease with a high death rate

  5. noun

    a swarm of insects that attack plants

    a plague of grasshoppers

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