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".
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