Pestilence

Noun

 * 1) Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
 * 2) * 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart Earth Abides
 * The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.

Related terms

 * pest
 * pesticide
 * pestilent

Adjectives for Pestilence
buoyant; great; hateful; occasional; infidel; life-poisoning; spreading; instinctive; infectious; tropical; air-borne.

Verbs for Pestilence
breed—; confine—to; ease—; free from—, remedy—; succumb to—; suffer—; survive —; —abuses; —affects; —aggrieves; — breaks out; —devastates; —endures; —oppresses; —outrages; —pains; —prostrates.

Thesaurus
Black Death, affliction, ambulatory plague, bane, black death, black plague, blight, bubonic plague, bugbear, burden, calamity, cancer, canker, cellulocutaneous plague, crushing burden, curse, death, defervescing plague, destruction, disease, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, evil, glandular plague, grievance, harm, hemorrhagic plague, infliction, larval plague, murrain, nemesis, open wound, pandemia, pandemic, pest, pesthole, plague, plague spot, pneumonic plague, premonitory plague, running sore, scourge, septicemic plague, siderating plague, thorn, torment, tuberculosis, vexation, visitation, white plague, woe

Etymology
< <  < pestilencia: < pestilens:; see pestilent.

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