plague lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• an annoyance "those children are a damn plague"
• any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
• a swarm of insects that attack plants "a plague of grasshoppers"
• any epidemic disease with a high death rate
• 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
• annoy continually or chronically "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked" "This man harasses his female co-workers"
• cause to suffer a blight "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
• An acute infectious disease caused by YERSINIA PESTIS that affects humans, wild rodents, and their ectoparasites. This condition persists due to its firm entrenchment in sylvatic rodent-flea ecosystems throughout the world. Bubonic plague is the most common form.