Crossword-Solution: PLAGUE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plague | n. | That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. |
| Plague | n. | An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. |
| Plague | v. t. | To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind. |
| Plague | v. t. | Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PLAGUE | anagram | ALEGUP |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PLAGUE (5)
Children were born to them and Thebes prospered under his rule, but again a grievous plague fell upon the city.
This usage is given point by the historical fact that `joiner' ideologies like Naziism or various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir populations.
They hung about the barricades, silent and sullen for a while, eyeing one another suspiciously, avoiding each other as if by instinct, lest the plague lurked already in their midst.
When the boll weevil spread across the Southern states like a plague, it wiped out many poor farmers, and it drove them to seek other means of livelihood elsewhere.
The destruction of a city is a large event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
Quotes with PLAGUE (3)
Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.
Voicemail #1: “Hi, Isabel Culpeper. I am lying in my bed, looking at the ceiling. I am mostly naked. I am thinking of … your mother. Call me.” Voicemail #2: The first minute and thirty seconds of “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” by the Bee Gees. Voicemail #3: “I’m bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone! I find all these old expressions unnec…
Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 30 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).