A usually deadly epidemic condition, especially bubonic plague.
A pernicious, bad impact or broker.
Any epidemic illness which highly contagious, infectious, virulent and damaging.
especially, the illness referred to as plague; thus, any contagious or infectious epidemic infection this is certainly virulent and devastating.
Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers.
the illness called the plague or pest; also, any epidemic cancerous illness.
whatever is pestilential or pestiferous; that which creates or will produce malignant condition.
That which is morally pestilent; whatever is naughty, noxious, or cancerous in any way.
a serious (sometimes fatal) disease of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and inadvertently transmitted to people because of the bite of a flea which has bitten an infected animal
a pernicious and malign impact this is certainly difficult to remove
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