pestilence
pestilence is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
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- noun. Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.
- noun. Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers.
- noun. a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
"racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"
"according to him, I was the canker in their midst"
- 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 a flea that has bitten an infected animal
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