plague
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noun
a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes (bubonic plague) and sometimes infection of the lungs (pneumonic plague):
(多くの死者を出す)疫病, 伝染病(epidemic); 〖the ～〗 ペスト
e.g. an outbreak of plague
e.g. they died of the plague.
a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people.
an unusually large number of insects or animals infesting a place and causing damage:
災難, 天災; (害獣･害虫などの)はびこり, 大量発生
e.g. a plague of fleas.
in singular a thing causing trouble or irritation:
｟話｠ ; 〖通例a ～〗 やっかいなもの, 人を悩ます物事.
e.g. staff theft is usually the plague of restaurants.
in singular archaic used as a curse or an expression of despair or disgust:
A plague on A! ＝ Plague take A!: ｟やや古｠ A〈人･物･事〉などくそくらえだ; いまいましい
e.g. a plague on all their houses! in recent use echoing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (iii. i. 94).
verb (plagues, plaguing, plagued) with object
cause continual trouble or distress to:
〖通例be ～d〗 «…で/…の間» 悩む, 苦しむ «by, with/for»
e.g. he has been plagued by ill health
e.g. the problems that plagued the company.
pester or harass (someone) continually:
【しつこい質問･要求などで】〈人〉を困らせる, 閉口させる(annoy, bother) «by, with» .
e.g. he was plaguing her with questions.
DERIVATIVES
plaguesome adjective
ORIGIN
late Middle English: Latin plaga ‘stroke, wound’, probably from Greek (Doric dialect) plaga, from a base meaning ‘strike’.