plague's
Belonging to contagion
Plague's is the possessive form of plague—a deadly epidemic disease, or more loosely, any widespread affliction or nuisance.
The word attributes something to the plague itself: the plague's rapid spread through medieval Europe, the plague's devastating toll.
It can also refer to figurative plagues: the plague's grip on the city's morale, ignoring the plague's warning signs.
Widespread disease occurrence
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- contagionDisease spread by contact
- pestilenceFatal epidemic disease
Black Death · bubonic · symptoms · spread · quarantine · rats · fleas · mortality
Cause of aggravation
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- botherTo annoy or disturb
- hassleIrritating difficulty
- irritationMild anger or inflammation
vexation · persistent · pestering · nagging · harassment · burden · curse · bane
Swarming crop-destroying grasshoppers
- swarmMass of moving insects
- crop destructionRuination of cultivated plants
- verminHarmful small animals
- ratsLong-tailed urban pests
insects · devastation · agricultural · grasshoppers · mice · blight · famine · harvest
epidemic
Widespread disease occurrence
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- contagionDisease spread by contact
pestilence · Black Death · bubonic · symptoms · spread · quarantine · rats · fleas · mortality · fever
nuisance
Cause of aggravation
irritation · vexation · persistent · pestering · nagging · harassment · burden · curse · bane · scourge
locusts
Swarming crop-destroying grasshoppers
- swarmMass of moving insects
- crop destructionRuination of cultivated plants
- verminHarmful small animals
rats · insects · devastation · agricultural · grasshoppers · mice · blight · famine · harvest · fields
Egypt
Northeastern African nation
- MosesHebrew prophet, liberator
- PharaohEgyptian royal title
- locustsSwarming crop-destroying grasshoppers
frogs · boils · hail · darkness · firstborn · Exodus · divine · punishment · affliction · Passover
- avoid like the plagueEvade with extreme caution
- the plagueDevastating infectious epidemic
- avoided like the plagueIntensely, deliberately evaded
- bubonic plagueYersinia pestis infection
- avoiding like the plagueExtreme deliberate evasion
- plague doctorEpidemic-treating masked physician