plague
/plɛɡ/ verb C1- To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
- To afflict with a disease or other calamity. · Natural catastrophes plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland.· Falling prices and drought plagued the cattle industry.
He/she/it plagues · Past plagued · Past participle plagued · -ing form plaguing
Verb forms
- Base form
- plague
- He/she/it
- plagues
- Past
- plagued
- Past participle
- plagued
- -ing form
- plaguing
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“But if you are going to call the Winged Monkeys we must run away, for they are full of mischief and think it great fun to plague us.”
Evil that plagued us is slain, Death in the garden lies dead.
Then it was that the Madness of Manhattan, the frenzy of Fuss and Feathers, the Bacillus of Brag, the Provincial Plague of Pose seized upon Towers Chandler.
“We can all plague and punish one another.
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