plague

/plˈeɪɡ/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

verb

1. cause to suffer a blight
   “Too much rain may blight the garden with mold”
2. annoy continually or chronically
   “He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”

noun

1. 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
2. any epidemic disease with a high death rate
3. a swarm of insects that attack plants
   “a plague of grasshoppers”
4. any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
5. an annoyance
   “those children are a damn plague”

Synonyms for plague

• blight
• harass
• hassle
• harry
• chivy
• chivvy
• chevy
• chevvy
• beset
• molest
• provoke
• pestilence
• pest
• pestis
• infestation

Words that rhyme with plague

• vague
• amoskeag
• baig
• begue
• craig
• flaig
• hague
• haig
• laphroaig
• maciag
• mccague
• mccaig
• mckaig
• mcquaig
• mctague
• rague
• sauerteig
• sprague