[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

plague \plague\, v. t. imp.  p. p. plagued; p. pr.  vb. n.
   plaguing.
   1. to infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural
      evil of any kind.
      1913 webster

            thus were they plagued
            and worn with famine.                 --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. fig.: to vex; to tease; to harass.
      1913 webster

            she will plague the man that loves her most.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

   syn: to vex; torment; distress; afflict; harass; annoy;
        tease; tantalize; trouble; molest; embarrass; perplex.
        1913 webster
see also:
plagued plaguing 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

plague \plague\, n. l. plaga a blow, stroke, plague; akin to
   gr. ?, fr. ? to strike; cf. l. plangere to strike, beat. cf.
   plaint.
   1. that which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a
      calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or
      vexation. --shak.
      1913 webster

            and men blasphemed god for the plague of hail.
                                                  --wyclif.
      1913 webster

            the different plague of each calamity. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. med. 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. "a plague upon the people fell." --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   cattle plague. see rinderpest.

   plague mark, plague spot, a spot or mark of the plague;
      hence, a token of something incurable.
      1913 webster
see also:
plaint cattle plague rinderpest plague mark plague spot 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

plague
     n 1: 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
     2: any epidemic disease with a high death rate syn: pestilence
     3: a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of
        grasshoppers" syn: infestation
     4: any large scale calamity especially when thought to be sent
        by god
     5: an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"
     v 1: cause to suffer a blight; "too much rain may blight the
          garden with mold" syn: blight
     2: annoy continually or chronically; "he is known to harry his
        staff when he is overworked"; "this man harasses his
        female co-workers" syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy,
         chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, molest, provoke
see also:
pestilence infestation blight harass hassle harry 
chivy chivvy chevy chevvy beset 
molest provoke 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

181 moby thesaurus words for "plague":
   afflict, affliction, aggravate, aggravation, ail,
   ambulatory plague, anguish, annoy, annoyance, apply pressure,
   badger, bait, bane, be at, be the matter, bedevil, beleaguer,
   beset, besiege, bevy, bitch, black death, black plague, blandish,
   blight, bother, bristle, brown off, bubonic plague, bug, bugbear,
   bullyrag, burden, burn up, buttonhole, cajole, calamity,
   cellulocutaneous plague, chafe, charm, chevy, chivy, cloud, coax,
   complicate matters, concern, covey, crawl with, creep with,
   crushing burden, curse, death, defervescing plague, destruction,
   devil, discommode, discompose, disease, distemper, distress,
   disturb, dog, drag, dun, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, evil,
   exasperate, exercise, exert pressure, fash, flight, flock, fret,
   gaggle, gall, get, glandular plague, gnaw, grievance, gripe,
   harass, harm, harry, hassle, haunt, headache, heckle, hector,
   hemorrhagic plague, hive, hound, importune, inconvenience, infest,
   infestation, infliction, invade, invasion, irk, irritate,
   irritation, larval plague, lousiness, miff, molest, murmuration,
   murrain, nag, nag at, needle, nemesis, nettle, nudzh, nuisance,
   open wound, overrun, overrunning, overspread, overspreading,
   overswarm, overswarming, pandemia, pandemic, peeve, perplex,
   persecute, perturb, pest, pester, pesthole, pestilence, pick on,
   pique, plague spot, pluck the beard, ply, pneumonic plague, pother,
   premonitory plague, press, pressure, provoke, push, put out,
   put to it, puzzle, ravage, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, running sore,
   scourge, septicemic plague, siderating plague, skein, spring,
   swarm, swarm with, swarming, tease, teeming, thorn, torment,
   torture, trouble, try the patience, tuberculosis, tweak the nose,
   urge, vex, vexation, visitation, watch, wheedle, white plague, woe,
   work on, worry

[5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

plague
   a "stroke" of affliction, or disease. sent as a divine
   chastisement num. 11:33; 14:37; 16:46-49; 2 sam. 24:21.
   painful afflictions or diseases, lev. 13:3, 5, 30; 1 kings
   8:37, or severe calamity mark 5:29; luke 7:21, or the
   judgment of god, so called ex. 9:14. plagues of egypt were ten
   in number.
   
     1. the river nile was turned into blood, and the fish died,
   and the river stank, so that the egyptians loathed to drink of
   the river ex. 7:14-25.
   
     2. the plague of frogs ex. 8:1-15.
   
     3. the plague of lice heb. kinnim, properly gnats or
   mosquitoes; comp. ps. 78:45; 105:31, "out of the dust of the
   land" ex. 8:16-19.
   
     4. the plague of flies heb. arob, rendered by the lxx.
   dog-fly, ex. 8:21-24.
   
     5. the murrain ex.9:1-7, or epidemic pestilence which
   carried off vast numbers of cattle in the field. warning was
   given of its coming.
   
     6. the sixth plague, of "boils and blains," like the third,
   was sent without warning ex.9:8-12. it is called deut. 28:27
   "the botch of egypt," a.v.; but in r.v., "the boil of egypt."
   "the magicians could not stand before moses" because of it.
   
     7. the plague of hail, with fire and thunder ex. 9:13-33.
   warning was given of its coming. comp. ps. 18:13; 105:32, 33.
   
     8. the plague of locusts, which covered the whole face of
   the earth, so that the land was darkened with them ex.
   10:12-15. the hebrew name of this insect, _arbeh_, points to
   the "multitudinous" character of this visitation. warning was
   given before this plague came.
   
     9. after a short interval the plague of darkness succeeded
   that of the locusts; and it came without any special warning
   ex. 10:21-29. the darkness covered "all the land of egypt" to
   such an extent that "they saw not one another." it did not,
   however, extend to the land of goshen.
   
     10. the last and most fearful of these plagues was the death
   of the first-born of man and of beast ex. 11:4, 5; 12:29,30.
   the exact time of the visitation was announced, "about
   midnight", which would add to the horror of the infliction. its
   extent also is specified, from the first-born of the king to the
   first-born of the humblest slave, and all the first-born of
   beasts. but from this plague the hebrews were completely
   exempted. the lord "put a difference" between them and the
   egyptians. see passover.
   
see also:
passover 

[6] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

plague, n.  in ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for
admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of pharaoh the
immune.  the plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is
merely nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless
objectionableness.

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Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
...... from the first cases of bubonic plague in 1348 to the early sixteenth ... ..
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html, score=100, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 3:22 am

CDC Plague Home Page - CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID)
...... 000 to 3,000 cases of plague every year. In North America, plague is ... flea is the primary vector of plague in most large plague epidemics in ... ..
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/index.htm, score=98, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 2:26 pm

frontline: plague war
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MedlinePlus: Plague
...... about Plague (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). *Plague and ... Human Plague in 2002 and 2003 (World Health Organization) - Links to ... ..
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/plague.html, score=92, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 10:50 am

CDC Plague Home Page - CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID)
...... 000 to 3,000 cases of plague every year. In North America, plague is ... flea is the primary vector of plague in most large plague epidemics in ... ..
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/, score=91, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 3:58 am

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