Plague: alternatives and connections

To strike or cast down; to overthrow.

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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

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The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

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Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individua…

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An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

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An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity…

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

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An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.

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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment.

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To render null and void.

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A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…

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That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the…

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To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.

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A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species…

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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A mound or small hill.

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Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.

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Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively…

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A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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An engine for casting stones.

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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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The act of molesting, or the state of being molested; disturbance; annoyance.

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The act of molesting, or the state of being molested; disturbance; annoyance.

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A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.

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A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.

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Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting; as, a plaguy horse. [Colloq.] Also used adverbially; as, "He is so plaguy proud."

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Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting; as, a plaguy horse. [Colloq.] Also used adverbially; as, "He is so plaguy proud."

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of Beset

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To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

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See Chivy, v. t.

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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.

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Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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