plague
US: /ˈpɫeɪɡ/
UK: /plˈeɪɡ/
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!
- bệnh dịch
- 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
n.
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.
v.
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
