pestilence

Speech parts

1. pestilence - Noun

2. Pestilence - Proper noun

Meaning

Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.

Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

plague disease visitation illness infection outbreak epidemic sickness pest contagion scourge canker pestis bubonic plague black death
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Antonyms

health treatment medicine surgery cure healing
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Hypernyms

influence epidemic disease

Hyponyms

bubonic plague pneumonic plague septicemic plague glandular plague pestis bubonica plague pneumonia

Related terms

pest pestilent pesticide

Phrases with the word

pestilence wort

Examples

racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation Source: Internet

according to him, I was the canker in their midst Source: Internet

A Carthaginian army of 20,000 had been sent to relieve the city, but suffered more heavily than the Romans from pestilence and was thus forced to retreat to Agrigentum. Source: Internet

According to Niebuhr, "this pestilence must have raged with incredible fury; it carried off innumerable victims. Source: Internet

And may Xi Jinping be afflicted with a pestilence of bat-boils! Source: Internet

Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

pestification pestify pestilation pestilence wort pestilent pestilent plant