plague : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a mild form of bubonic plague
  ambulant plague; pestis ambulans.
  

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• noun a mild form of bubonic plague
  ambulant plague; pestis ambulans.
  

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• noun the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
  Black Death.
  

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• noun the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person
  pestis bubonica; bubonic plague.
  

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• noun an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes
  rinderpest.
  

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• . See Rinderpest.
• the rinderpest; called also Russian cattle plague.

Webster 1913

• noun the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person
  pestis bubonica; bubonic plague.
  

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• a spot or mark of the plague; hence, a token of something incurable.

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• noun a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever
  plague pneumonia; pneumonic plague.
  

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• noun a spot on the skin characteristic of the plague
  

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• noun a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever
  plague pneumonia; pneumonic plague.
  

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• noun a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever
  plague pneumonia; pneumonic plague.
  

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• noun an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person
  

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• noun the transformation of ordinary white tin into powdery grey tin at very cold temperatures
  tin pest; tin disease.
  

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• noun involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
  phthisis; consumption; pulmonary tuberculosis; wasting disease.
  
• noun an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
  drug addiction.
  

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