Main entry: plague
Definition: an annoyance
Usage: those children are a damn plague
Main entry: plague
Definition: any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
Main entry: plague, infestation
Definition: a swarm of insects that attack plants
Usage: a plague of grasshoppers
Main entry: pest, pestilence, plague
Definition: any epidemic disease with a high death rate
Main entry: pest, pestilence, pestis, plague
Definition: 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
Main entry: plague, provoke, molest, harass, harry, hassle, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, beset
Definition: annoy continually or chronically
Usage: He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked; This man harasses his female co-workers
Definition: cause to suffer a blight
Usage: Too much rain may blight the garden with mold