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Definition of Plague

Plague That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind. Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass. Related Definitions: Acute, Afflict, Afflictive, An, And, Any, As, At, Blow, Calamity, Cities, Contagious, Disease, Evil, Fever, Fig, Frightful, Great, Harass, Hence, Has, In, Infest, Kind, Large, London, Malignant, Mortality, Natural, Of, Often, Or, Pestilence, Plague, Tease, That, The, Times, To, Torment, Trail, Turkey, Vex, Vexation, Visited, Which, With

Plague Quotations My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. George Washington War is the greatest plague that can affect humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. Martin Luther The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. Napoleon Bonaparte I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. Russell Crowe War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. Martin Luther

Plague Translations plague in Dutch is pest plague in French is peste plague in German is plagen plague in Hungarian is pestis plague in Latin is lues, pestilencia, pestis pestis plague in Portuguese is praga plague in Spanish is plaga plague in Swedish is farsot, pest

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