plague
- IPA[pleɪɡ]
英式
- a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes (bubonic plague) and sometimes infection of the lungs (pneumonic plague).；any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people
- cause continual trouble or distress to；pester or harass (someone) continually
noun: plague, plural noun: plagues
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- 1. a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes (bubonic plague) and sometimes infection of the lungs (pneumonic plague).
- ▪ any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people diseases like smallpox wiped out the indigenous people in a succession of plagues 同義詞
- 2. an unusually large number of insects or animals infesting a place and causing damage a plague of locusts 同義詞
- 3. a thing causing trouble or irritation staff theft is usually the plague of restaurants 同義詞
- ▪ archaic used as a curse a plague on all their houses!
動詞
- 1. cause continual trouble or distress to he has been plagued by ill health 同義詞
- ▪ pester or harass (someone) continually he was plaguing her with questions 同義詞
- a serious outbreak of bubonic plague in England in 1665–6, in which about one fifth of the ...
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- (of a disease) resembling plague in its severity or the rapidity with which it spreads: plague-like outbreaks of disease
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- the commonest form of plague in humans, characterized by fever, delirium, and the formation of ...
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- an acute and often fatal infectious viral disease of birds, especially poultry.
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- the most common form of plague in humans, characterized by fever, delirium, and the formation ...
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- an acute and often fatal infectious disease of birds, especially poultry, caused by certain ...
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- (of a disease) resembling plague in its severity or the rapidity with which it spreads: plague-like outbreaks of disease
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- another term for rinderpest
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- a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the ... an outbreak of plague they died of the plague
- cause continual trouble or distress to: he has been plagued by ill health the problems that plagued the company
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