You queried:

plague "

Results retrieved for:
    • \ ˈplāg 

    • \ ˌan-tē-ˈplāg \

    Your query is not considered offensive by any official sources.

    ( some results may take a moment to update )


    [Noun]  | "plague" | \ ˈplāg \


    1: a disastrous evil or affliction : calamity

    2: a destructively numerous influx or multiplication of a noxious animal : infestation

    3: an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality : pestilence


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English plage, from Late Latin plaga, from Latin, blow; akin to Latin plangere to strike {mat|plaint|};

    [Noun]  | "bubonic plague" 


    1: plague caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) and characterized especially by the formation of buboes


    Origin: 1803 ;

    [Verb]  | "plague" 


    1: to smite, infest, or afflict with or as if with disease, calamity, or natural evil

    2: to cause worry or distress to : hamper, burden

    3: to disturb or annoy persistently


    Origin: 15th century ;

    [Adjective]  | "an*ti-plague" | \ ˌan-tē-ˈplāg \


    1: used or intended to counteract a plague and especially bubonic plague


    Origin: 1817 ;

    [Idiom]  | "avoid (someone or something) like the plague" 


    1: to stay away as much as possible from (someone or something)

    [Verb]  | "plague" 


    1: to cause persistent suffering to;


      * e.g., " ... plagued by a cough for all of last week "



    •  Antonyms : 

    • (N/A)





    [Noun]  | "plague" 


    1: a widespread disease resulting in a high rate of death;


      * e.g., " ... the Black Death was a plague that killed about one third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages "



    •  Antonyms : 

    • (N/A)





     [ "plague" ]

    1: 1) A serious and spreading sickness.

      * e.g.,  ... 1) The plague spread through New Hampshire, making many cough and die. 


     [ "plague" ]

    2: 2) A serious and spreading problem.

      * e.g.,  ... 2) The rats were a serious plague, which Great Britain intended to handle quickly. 


     [ "plague" ]

    3: 3) That which is borne by the PlagueBearer.

      * e.g.,  ... 3) PlagueBearer sure bears plague. 

     [ "plague" ]

    1: a variation of the word 'sick', as in awesome, cool, tight, etc.

      * e.g.,  ... Did you catch the concert last night? The band's drumming was hella plague! 


     [ "plague" ]

    2: 'bubonic' may also be used in place of plague

     [ "Plague" ]

    1: an illness that wipes large numbers of living organisms out of existance.

      * e.g.,  ... "Oh dear I have seem to have caught the plague" 

     [ "Plague" ]

    1: A term to define a crowd of negative, hateful, vindictive, malicious, abusive, people who have no concept of kindness, consideration, or "Harm None", despite the number of "Wiccans" in the actual crowd. See lemmings, sheep, queen, clannie, spellchecker, guinness, cancer.

      * e.g.,  ... "You goin' out tonight?" 

     [ "the plague" ]

    1: in a historical context, the plague often refers to the bubonic plague or "black death", also known as pestilence, which wiped out large portions of the population of Europe and Asia during the 14th and 15th centuries in a modern vernacular context, the plague refers to someone being out with illness, most often a chest cold or flu, usually exaggerating the extent of one's illness while demonstrating their incapacity

      * e.g.,  ... Sara can't come in today, she's out with the plague 

     [ "The Plague" ]

    1: A sickly and unidentifiable disease brought on by chronic marijuana use. Often augmented by nasty ass Whitman "beeshe(s)" and regularly going twenty deep.

      * e.g.,  ... "Hey man you wanna hit this "spleef?" Naw dude im on hiatus I have the plague. I just coughed up blood and urinated green today.  

     [ "Plague" ]

    1: Plague, The mass recruited Arma 3 Olympus gang that commonly sits on Server 2 all day and get wiped by Synthetic

      * e.g.,  ... Plague were 8v15d by Synthetic when they pushed them at Rebel (12/31/2018) 

     [ "Plague" ]

    1: Contrary to common misconception this infact means very good or amazing. One is often amazed at the amazingness of something when using this phrase.

      * e.g.,  ... Guy 1: "I just won a million pounds.." 

     [ "PLAGUE" ]

    1: tr00 Black Metal band featuring Cronias on drums and Lachesis on guitar/bass.

      * e.g.,  ... Holy shit, PLAGUE is the tr00est band ever! 

     [ "The Plague" ]

    1: Contrary to common misconception this infact means very good or amazing. One is often amazed at the amazingness of something when using this phrase.

      * e.g.,  ... Guy 1: "I just won a million pounds.." 

     No results from Words API...

     No results from Linguatools Conjugations API...

     No results from Words API...

     No results from Word Associations API...


    * Query The Library of Babel *
    * Query Wikipedia *
    * Query Google *

    * Discuss! *


    You must be signed in to post comments!


    Top comments for:
    "plague"