Synonyms: plague
Definition: an annoyance
Usage: those children are a damn plague
Similar words: bother, botheration, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck, annoyance, infliction
Definition: something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
Usage: washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer; a bit of a bother; he's not a friend, he's an infliction
Synonyms: plague
Definition: any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
Similar words: tragedy, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster
Definition: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
Usage: the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity; the earthquake was a disaster
Synonyms: plague, infestation
Definition: a swarm of insects that attack plants
Usage: a plague of grasshoppers
Definition: a group of many things in the air or on the ground
Usage: a swarm of insects obscured the light; clouds of blossoms; it discharged a cloud of spores
Synonyms: pest, pestilence, plague
Definition: any epidemic disease with a high death rate
Similar words: epidemic disease
Definition: any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: epidemic disease
Definition: any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: devil, irritate, get at, get to, gravel, rag, rile, bother, chafe, annoy, nark, nettle, vex
Definition: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
Usage: Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me; It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves
Definition: cause to suffer a blight
Usage: Too much rain may blight the garden with mold
Definition: cause physical pain or suffering in
Usage: afflict with the plague