plague

1. 1.

   cause to suffer a blight

   “Too much rain may blight the garden with mold”

   Synonymsblight

   Broaderafflict
2. 2.

   annoy continually or chronically

   “He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”

   “This man harasses his female co-workers”

   Synonymsharasshassleharrychivychivvychevychevvybesetmolestprovoke

   Broaderannoy

   Narrowerneedletormenthaze

Other forms of plague

plural

plagues·

past tense

plagued·

present participle

plaguing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plague

What does plague mean?

plague means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plague?

plague has 1 syllable: plague. In IPA it is /ˈpleɪɡ/.

What is another word for plague?

Close synonyms include pestilence, pest, pestis, pestilence, pest. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plague a common word?

plague is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.