When the homeowner described her ant problem as a plague, the exterminator thought she was being a bit melodramatic. After all, a few bugs aren't exactly a huge calamity.
That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
Noun
an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"
Noun
any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
Noun
a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers"
Noun
any epidemic disease with a high death rate
Noun
a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected rat flea (especially bubonic plague)
Verb
annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
Verb
cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
n.
That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity;
any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
n.
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.
v. t.
To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural
evil of any kind.
v. t.
Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
Plague
And men blasphemed God for the plague of hail.
The different plague of each calamity.2.
Plague
Thus were they plagued And worn with famine.2.
She will plague the man that loves her most.
That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.
Usage Examples
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.
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Other Usage ExamplesOne was never married, and that's his hell another is, and that's his plague.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
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