What is the meaning of the word "plague"?
Definitions:
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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
noun
- Millions of people died in the plague outbreaks of the middle ages.
- Millions of people died in the plague outbreaks of the middle ages.
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a swarm of insects that attack plants
noun
- a plague of grasshoppers
- a plague of grasshoppers
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an annoyance
noun
- those children are a damn plague
- those children are a damn plague