plague
plague is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
- noun. 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.
- transitive verb. To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.
- transitive verb. Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
- 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 a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- 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"
Synonyms
infestation, pest, pestilence, pestis, beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, provoke, blight
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in plague:
Common word forms
plagued, plaguer, plagues, plaguing, plagueful, plagueless
Words from these letters
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