plague 的 2 个定义
- an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
 - an infectious, epidemic disease caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, characterized by fever, chills, and prostration, transmitted to humans from rats by means of the bites of fleas.Compare bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, septicemic plague.
 - any widespread affliction, calamity, or evil, especially one regarded as a direct punishment by God: a plague of war and desolation.
 - any cause of trouble, annoyance, or vexation: Uninvited guests are a plague.
 
plagued, pla·guing.
- to trouble, annoy, or torment in any manner: The question of his future plagues him with doubt.
 - to annoy, bother, or pester: Ants plagued the picnickers.
 - to smite with a plague, pestilence, death, etc.; scourge: those whom the gods had plagued.
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plague 近义词
disease that is widespread
annoyance, curse
annoy, disturb
更多plague例句
- How the 2021 Sundance Film Festival — and many of its films — reflected life in a time of plague.
 - The crown used the information to gauge the toll of the plague on its largest city and the relative safety of conducting royal business within city limits.
 - Throughout human history, we have been subjected to wave after wave of viral and bacterial plagues.
 - It’s unclear how the plague bacterium first reached Siberia or whether it caused widespread infections and death, Götherström says.
 - Reading Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save in the year of the plague.
 - Similar stories plague many parts of Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Asia.
 - Why is violence against women central to so many of the conflicts that plague the planet today?
 - Spread happens easily, however, and epidemics are propagated when the third form of plague occurs: pneumonia plague.
 - As I described in an article over the summer when the fatal case in China was diagnosed, plague has three distinct clinical forms.
 - The plague made a brief appearance in China earlier this year and continues in the U.S. with a few cases annually.
 - The great plague of this and the subsequent year broke out at St. Giles, London.
 - Garnache need not plague himself with vexation that his rash temper alone had wrought his ruin now.
 - A man was whipped through London for going to court when his house was infected by plague.
 - The plague at Smyrna committed great ravages; about 300 died daily for some time.
 - Those little Babcocks are sure to come, invited or not, and as surely would plague the life out of her.