English-Thai Dictionary

plague

N กาฬโรค (หนู เป็น พาหะ นำ โรค  ka-ra-rok

 

plague

N สัตว์ หรือ แมลง จำนวนมาก (มัก ทำให้เกิด ภัย ร้าย  irritant pest pacifier sad-rue-ma-lang-jam-nuan-mak

 

plague

N โรคระบาด รุนแรง  epidemic rok-ra-bad-run-rang

 

plague

VT ทำให้ รำคาญ  รังควาน  annoy bother torment trouble tam-hai-ram-kan

 

plague

VT ทำให้เกิด ภัยพิบัติ  tam-hai-koed-pai-pi-bud

 

plague with

PHRV ทำให้ ยุ่งยาก  ทำให้ ขุ่นเคือง  ทำให้ รำคาญ  tam-hai-yung-yak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PLAGUE

n.plag. [L. plaga, a stroke; Gr. See Lick and Lay. The primary sense is a stroke or striking. So afflict is from the root of flog, and probably of the same family as plague. ] 1. Any thing troublesome or vexatious; but in this sense, applied to the vexations we suffer from men, and not to the unavoidable evils inflicted on us by Divine Providence. The application of the word to the latter, would now be irreverent and reproachful.
2. A pestilential disease; an acute, malignant and contagious disease that often prevails in Egypt, Syria and Turkey, and has at times infected the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality.
3. A state of misery. 1 Kings 8:38.
4. Any great natural evil or calamity; as the ten plagues of Egypt.

 

PLAGUE

v.t.plag. 1. To infest with disease, calamity or natural evil of any kind.
Thus were they plagued
And worn with famine.
2. To vex; to tease; to harass; to trouble; to embarrass; a very general and indefinite signification.
If her nature be so,
That she will plague the man that loves her most--

 

PLAGUEFUL

a.Abounding with plagues; infected with plagues.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PLAGUE

Plague, n. Etym: [L. plaga a blow, stroke, plague; akin to Gr. plangere to strike, beat. Cf. Plaint. ]

 

1. That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. Shak. And men blasphemed God for the plague of hail. Wyclif. The different plague of each calamity. Shak.

 

2. (Med. )

 

Defn: An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. "A plague upon the people fell. " Tennyson. Cattle plague. See Rinderpest. -- Plague mark, Plague spot, a spot or mark of the plague; hence, a token of something incurable.

 

PLAGUE

Plague, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plagued; p. pr. & vb. n. Plaguing.]

 

1. To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind. Thus were they plagued And worn with famine. Milton.

 

2. Fig. : To vex; to tease; to harass. She will plague the man that loves her most. Spenser.

 

Syn. -- To vex; torment; distress; afflict; harass; annoy; tease; tantalize; trouble; molest; embarrass; perplex.

 

PLAGUEFUL

PLAGUEFUL Plague "ful, a.

 

Defn: Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.

 

PLAGUELESS

PLAGUELESS Plague "less, a.

 

Defn: Free from plagues or the plague.

 

PLAGUER

PLAGUER Pla "guer, n.

 

Defn: One who plagues or annoys.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

plague

plague |plāg pleɪɡ | ▶noun a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes (see bubonic plague ) and sometimes infection of the lungs (pneumonic plague ): an outbreak of plague | 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: a plague of fleas. • [ in sing. ] a thing causing trouble or irritation: staff theft is usually the plague of restaurants. • [ in sing. ] archaic used as a curse or an expression of despair or disgust: a plague on all their houses! [in recent use echoing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ( iii. i. 94 ).] ▶verb ( plagues, plaguing, plagued ) [ with obj. ] cause continual trouble or distress to: the problems that plagued the company | he has been plagued by ill health. • pester or harass (someone ) continually: he was plaguing her with questions. ORIGIN late Middle English: Latin plaga ‘stroke, wound, ’ probably from Greek (Doric dialect ) plaga, from a base meaning ‘strike. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

plague

plague |pleɪg | ▶noun 1 (usu. the plague ) a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes (see bubonic plague ) and sometimes infection of the lungs (pneumonic plague ). • any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people. 2 an unusually large number of insects or animals infesting a place and causing damage: a plague of locusts. 3 [ in sing. ] a thing causing trouble or irritation: staff theft is usually the plague of restaurants. • (a plague on ) archaic used as a curse: a plague on all their houses! [echoing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ( iii. i. 94 ).] ▶verb ( plagues, plaguing, plagued ) [ with obj. ] cause continual trouble or distress to: he has been plagued by ill health. • pester or harass (someone ) continually: he was plaguing her with questions. ORIGIN late Middle English: Latin plaga ‘stroke, wound ’, probably from Greek (Doric dialect ) plaga, from a base meaning ‘strike ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

plague

plague noun 1 they died of the plague: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, Black Death; disease, sickness, epidemic; dated contagion; archaic pestilence. 2 a plague of fleas: infestation, epidemic, invasion, swarm, multitude, host. 3 theft is the plague of restaurants: bane, curse, scourge, affliction, blight. ▶verb 1 he was plagued by poor health: afflict, bedevil, torment, trouble, beset, dog, curse. 2 he plagued her with questions: pester, harass, badger, bother, torment, persecute, bedevil, harry, hound, trouble, irritate, nag, annoy, vex, molest; informal hassle, bug, aggravate, devil.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

plague

plague noun 1 an outbreak of plague | they died of the plague: disease, sickness; bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, the Black Death; contagious disease, contagion, epidemic, pandemic; archaic pestilence, the pest, murrain. 2 another hot summer has produced a plague of cat fleas: huge number, infestation, epidemic, invasion, influx, swarm, multitude, host. 3 staff theft is usually the plague of restaurants: bane, curse, scourge, affliction, blight, cancer, canker. ▶verb 1 he has been plagued by poor health: afflict, bedevil, cause suffering to, torture, torment, trouble, beset, dog, curse, rack. 2 he was plaguing her with questions: pester, harass, badger, bother, torment, persecute, bedevil, harry, hound, disturb, trouble, be a nuisance to, keep after, irritate, worry, nag, annoy, vex, molest; N. English mither; informal hassle, bug, aggravate, give someone a hard time, drive up the wall, drive round the bend; N. Amer. informal devil, ride.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

plague

plague /pleɪɡ /〖語源は 「一撃 」〗名詞 複 ～s /-z /1 C U (多くの死者を出す )疫病 , 伝染病 (epidemic ); 〖the ～〗ペスト ▸ the Great [London ] Plague (ロンドンの )大疫病 〘1664 --65年に大流行した; →Black Death 〙.2 C 災難 , 天災 ; (害獣 害虫などの )はびこり , 大量発生 ▸ a plague of locusts イナゴの大量発生 .3 C ｟話 ｠〖通例a ～〗やっかいなもの , 人を悩ます物事 .A pl á gue on A! ＝Pl à gue t á ke A! ｟やや古 ｠A 〈人 物 事 〉などくそくらえだ ; いまいましい .av ò id A like the pl á gue A 〈人 物 〉を (疫病のように嫌って )避ける, 忌み嫌う .動詞 他動詞 1 〖通例be ～d 〗 «…で /…の間 » 悩む , 苦しむ «by , with /for » .2 【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 » .3 …を疫病にかからせる .4 …に災害を与える .