Associations to the word «Pestilence»
Noun
- Famine
- Plague
- Calamity
- Scourge
- Apocalypse
- Locust
- Horseman
- Drought
- Blight
- Desolation
- Visitation
- Epidemic
- Starvation
- Cholera
- Filth
- Earthquake
- Guadalcanal
- Malady
- Slew
- Archangel
- Stench
- Tempest
- Sickness
- Fever
- Misery
- Hunger
- Smallpox
- Israelites
- Carcass
- Grocer
- Flood
- Scarcity
- Affliction
- Weariness
- Thrash
- Wasting
- Habitation
- Slaughter
- Comet
- Evil
- Oppression
- Yoke
- Iliad
- Multitude
- Athenian
- Continuance
- Disease
- Suffering
- Oracle
- Apollo
- Pest
- Sword
- Talisman
- Sufferer
- Sick
- Curse
- Quarantine
- Abode
- Terror
- Mortality
- Peril
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
PESTILENCE, noun. Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
PESTILENCE, proper noun. The personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.
Dictionary definition
PESTILENCE, noun. A serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal.
PESTILENCE, noun. Any epidemic disease with a high death rate.
PESTILENCE, noun. A pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst".
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.