| algolagnia | (noun) sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain | Synonyms: algophilia |
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| algolagnic | (adjective) of or relating to algolagnia | - |
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| anlage | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: primordium |
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| archipelagic | (adjective) relating to or part of an archipelago | - |
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| archipelago | (noun) a group of many islands in a large body of water | - |
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| assemblage | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assembly, gathering |
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| (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: hookup |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: gathering |
| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, collection |
| balagan | (noun) a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) | - |
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| biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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| bricolage | (noun) construction of something by whatever material are available | - |
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| camouflage | (noun) the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance | Synonyms: disguise |
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| (noun) device or stratagem for concealment or deceit | - |
| (noun) fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background | Synonyms: camo |
| (noun) an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | Synonyms: disguise |
| (verb) disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something | - |
| camouflaged | (adjective) made invisible by means of protective coloring | - |
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| cartilage | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: gristle |
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| cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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| cartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to cartilage | - |
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| (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: gristly, rubbery |
| collage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: montage |
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| (noun) any collection of diverse things | - |
| collagen | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling | - |
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| collagenase | (noun) any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of collagen and gelatin | - |
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| collagenic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenous |
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| collagenous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenic |
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| conflagrate | (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, erupt, ignite, take fire |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: enkindle, inflame, kindle |
| conflagration | (noun) a very intense and uncontrolled fire | Synonyms: inferno |
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| curtilage | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: grounds, yard |
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| deflagrate | (verb) burn with great heat and intense light | - |
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| (verb) cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity | - |
| deflagration | (noun) combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat | - |
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| dinoflagellate | (noun) chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton | - |
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| enallage | (noun) a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I') | - |
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| ensilage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: silage |
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| fibrocartilage | (noun) cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue | - |
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| fibrocartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to fibrocartilage | - |
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| filaggrin | (noun) the main protein of the keratohyalin granules | - |
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| filago | (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, cudweed |
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| filagree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filigree, fillagree |
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| fillagree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filagree, filigree |
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| flag | (noun) a conspicuously marked or shaped tail | - |
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| (noun) emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design | - |
| (noun) stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones | Synonyms: flagstone |
| (noun) flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green | Synonyms: pin |
| (noun) a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device | Synonyms: signal flag |
| (noun) a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc. | Synonyms: masthead |
| (noun) plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals | Synonyms: fleur-de-lis, iris, sword lily |
| (verb) provide with a flag | - |
| (verb) become less intense | Synonyms: ease off, ease up, slacken off |
| (verb) communicate or signal with a flag | - |
| (verb) decorate with flags | - |
| (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: droop, sag, swag |
| flagellant | (noun) a person who whips himself as a religious penance | - |
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| (noun) a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification | - |
| flagellate | (adjective) having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) | Synonyms: flagellated, lash-like, whiplike |
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| (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore |
| (verb) whip | Synonyms: scourge |
| flagellated | (adjective) having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) | Synonyms: flagellate, lash-like, whiplike |
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| flagellation | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flogging, lashing, tanning, whipping |
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| (noun) beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation | - |
| flagellum | (noun) a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa) | - |
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| (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: scourge |
| flageolet | (noun) a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes | Synonyms: shepherd's pipe, treble recorder |
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| (noun) a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried | Synonyms: haricot |
| flagfish | (noun) a fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Florida | Synonyms: American flagfish, Jordanella floridae |
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| flagging | (adjective) weak from exhaustion | Synonyms: drooping |
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| (noun) a walk of flagstones | - |
| (noun) flagstones collectively | - |
| flagitious | (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, grievous, monstrous |
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| (adjective) extremely wicked, deeply criminal | Synonyms: heinous |
| flagon | (noun) a large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout; used to hold alcoholic beverages (usually wine) | - |
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| flagpole | (noun) a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised | Synonyms: flagstaff |
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| (noun) surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors | Synonyms: range pole, ranging pole |
| flagrant | (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, glaring, gross, rank |
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| flagrantly | (adverb) in a flagrant manner | - |
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| flagroot | (noun) perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Acorus calamus, calamus, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag |
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| flagship | (noun) the ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag | - |
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| (noun) the chief one of a related group | - |
| flagstaff | (noun) a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised | Synonyms: flagpole |
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| flagstone | (noun) stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones | Synonyms: flag |
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| fuselage | (noun) the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo) | - |
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| galago | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, bushbaby |
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| graylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag goose, greylag, greylag goose |
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| greylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag, graylag goose, greylag goose |
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| gulag | (noun) a Russian prison camp for political prisoners | - |
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| haulage | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haul |
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| hypallage | (noun) reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face') | - |
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| lag | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: retardation, slowdown |
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| (noun) one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket | Synonyms: stave |
| (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, meantime, meanwhile |
| (verb) throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins | - |
| (verb) cover with lagging to prevent heat loss | - |
| (verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: dawdle, fall back, fall behind |
| (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, put away, put behind bars, remand |
| lagan | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagend, ligan |
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| lagend | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagan, ligan |
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| lager | (noun) a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons | Synonyms: laager |
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| (noun) a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September | Synonyms: lager beer |
| lagerphone | (noun) an Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground | - |
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| laggard | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, pokey, poky |
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| (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, lagger, poke, trailer |
| lagger | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, laggard, poke, trailer |
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| lagging | (noun) insulation used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat | - |
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| lagniappe | (noun) a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase) | - |
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| lagomorph | (noun) relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: gnawing mammal |
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| lagoon | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: laguna, lagune |
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| lagophthalmos | (noun) abnormal condition in which an eye cannot close completely | - |
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| laguna | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: lagoon, lagune |
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| lagune | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: lagoon, laguna |
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| melagra | (noun) rheumatic or myalgic pains in the arms or legs | - |
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| milage | (noun) distance measured in miles | Synonyms: mileage |
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| mucilage | (noun) a gelatinous substance secreted by plants | - |
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| (noun) cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive | Synonyms: glue, gum |
| mucilaginous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| pelage | (noun) growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal | Synonyms: coat |
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| pelagic | (adjective) relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean | Synonyms: oceanic |
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| pellagra | (noun) a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments | Synonyms: Alpine scurvy, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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| persiflage | (noun) light teasing | - |
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| pillage | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillaging, plundering |
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| (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, plunder, prize, swag |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| pillaged | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: despoiled, raped, ravaged, sacked |
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| (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, plundered, ransacked |
| pillager | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| pillaging | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, plundering |
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| plage | (noun) the beach at a seaside resort | - |
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| plagiarisation | (noun) the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own | Synonyms: piracy, plagiarism, plagiarization |
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| plagiarise | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarize |
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| plagiarised | (adjective) copied and passed off as your own | Synonyms: plagiaristic, plagiarized |
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| plagiariser | (noun) someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own | Synonyms: literary pirate, pirate, plagiarist, plagiarizer |
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| plagiarism | (noun) the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own | Synonyms: piracy, plagiarisation, plagiarization |
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| (noun) a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work | - |
| plagiarist | (noun) someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own | Synonyms: literary pirate, pirate, plagiariser, plagiarizer |
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| plagiaristic | (adjective) copied and passed off as your own | Synonyms: plagiarised, plagiarized |
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| plagiarization | (noun) the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own | Synonyms: piracy, plagiarisation, plagiarism |
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| plagiarize | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarise |
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| plagiarized | (adjective) copied and passed off as your own | Synonyms: plagiarised, plagiaristic |
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| plagiarizer | (noun) someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own | Synonyms: literary pirate, pirate, plagiariser, plagiarist |
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| plagiocephaly | (noun) congenital malformation of the skull in which the main axis of the skull is oblique | - |
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| plagioclase | (noun) any of a series of triclinic feldspars that form rocks | Synonyms: oligoclase |
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| plagioclastic | (adjective) of or relating to plagioclase | - |
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| plague | (noun) an annoyance | - |
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| (noun) any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) | - |
| (noun) a swarm of insects that attack plants | Synonyms: infestation |
| (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 | Synonyms: pest, pestilence, pestis |
| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, pestilence |
| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, provoke |
| (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: blight |