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plague

US: /ˈpɫeɪɡ/

UK: /plˈe‍ɪɡ/

English Vietnamese dictionary

plague /pleig/

danh từ
- bệnh dịch
  - the plague: bệnh dịch hạch ((cũng) bubonic plague)
- tai hoạ
  - a plague of flies: tai hoạ ruồi
- điều tệ hại, điều phiền phức, điều khó chịu; người gây tai hại, vật gây tai hại
  - what a plague this child is!: thằng bé này thật là tai hại!
- plague on him!
  - quan ôn bắt nó đi!, trời tru đất diệt nó đi!

ngoại động từ
- gây bệnh dịch cho
- gây tai hoạ cho, gây tai hại cho, gây tệ hại cho
- (thông tục) làm phiền, quấy rầy, làm khó chịu
  - to plague someone with questions: cứ hỏi quấy rầy ai

Advanced English dictionary

noun, verb
+ noun
1 (also the plague) [U] = BUBONIC PLAGUE: an outbreak of plague
2 [C] any infectious disease that kills a lot of people: the new plague of Aids
3 [C] ~ of sth large numbers of an animal or insect that come into an area and cause great damage: a plague of locusts / rats
Idioms see AVOID
+ verb [VN] ~ sb/sth (with sth)
1 to cause pain or trouble to sb/sth over a period of time: to be plagued by doubts / jealousy + Financial problems are plaguing the company. + The team has been plagued by injury this season.
2 to annoy sb or create problems, especially by asking for sth, demanding attention, etc: Rock stars have to get used to being plagued by autograph hunters.

Thesaurus dictionary

1 scourge, epidemic, pestilence, affliction, pandemic, calamity, curse, evil, bane, blight, visitation:

The inhabitants turned a plague of locusts to advantage by eating them

2 irritation, annoyance, nuisance, pest, vexation, bother, thorn in one's side or flesh, torment, torture, Colloq pain (in the neck), headache, aggravation, Slang drag, bitch, hassle, Taboo Slang pain in the Brit arse or US ass:

It's a plague trying to find a place to park the car.

3 badger, harry, hound, pester, annoy, vex, irritate, bother, harass, nag, nettle, exasperate, gall, annoy, irk, torment, torture, anguish, distress, Brit chivvy or chivy or chevy:

I wish the police would stop plaguing me with questions about Jonathan's whereabouts.

Collocation dictionary

ADJ.

bubonic | great

Nearly a third of the population died in the Great Plague.

QUANT.

outbreak

a decline in population following outbreaks of plague

VERB + PLAGUE

suffer

The region has just suffered a plague of locusts.

| be decimated by, be destroyed by

PLAGUE + VERB

break out, start, strike (sth)

Bubonic plague struck London in 1665.

| spread

PREP.

~ of

The city is suffering a plague of rats. > Special page at ILLNESS

Concise English dictionary

plagues|plagued|plaguingpleɪg
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
+any epidemic disease with a high death rate
+a swarm of insects that attack plants
+any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
+an annoyance
verb
+cause to suffer a blight
+annoy continually or chronically