What is another word for plague ?

Any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people

hemorrhage^US

haemorrhage^UK

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“The number of measles cases is fast rising, and if this continues children could die, and the disease could become the plague it once was.”

Noun

A thing causing trouble or irritation

source of aggravation

trials and tribulations

offense^US

offence^UK

blot on the landscape

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“But the eviction is just the first step towards rebuilding community spirit, which has been ruined by a plague of anti-social behaviour.”

Noun

An unusually large number of insects or animals infesting a place and causing damage

“He ordered four men to stay behind at the base camp at Cooper's Creek to guard a stock of provisions against a plague of rats.”

Noun

A person or thing that brings bad luck

Noun

An organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye, especially a single-celled organism, such as a bacterium

disease-causing agent

Noun

A person or thing that kills

Noun

Detested person

Verb

To cause anguish or distress to

breathe down someone's neck

give someone a hard time

pressurize^US

tantalize^US

tantalise^UK

terrorize^US

terrorise^UK

pressurise^UK

victimize^US

drive round the twist

get across

give someone the hump

tyrannize^US

victimise^UK

appal^UK

appall^US

tyrannise^UK

antagonize^US

antagonise^UK

criticize^US

criticise^UK

take the mickey out of

make things hot for someone

make it hot for someone

find fault with

put your back up

use strong-arm tactics on

bring pressure to bear on

brutalize^US

brutalise^UK

belabour^UK

drive you up the wall

cause someone distress

hurt somebody's feelings

be a pain in the neck

scare the bejesus out of

make severe demands on

hurt someone's feelings

cause someone difficulty

get someone's back up

get across someone

set on

make someone's blood boil

put someone's back up

get in someone's hair

try one's patience

take a rise out of

put someone out

try someone's patience

get on someone's nerves

dishonour^UK

materialize^US

materialise^UK

put someone to trouble

belabor^US

dishonor^US

put out of countenance

make someone go out of his way

breath down someone's neck

lead someone a merry dance

keep someone hanging on

make someone's mouth water

satirize^US

satirise^UK

labour^UK

rule with an iron hand

rule with a rod of iron

bring someone to their knees

labor^US

traumatize^US

demoralize^US

traumatise^UK

demoralise^UK

put someone off their stroke

harm

knock the stuffing out of

scandalize^US

scandalise^UK

make your heart bleed

pour cold water on

throw cold water on

set someone back on their heels

cause someone to lose their composure

paralyse^UK

paralyze^US

give someone the blues

tear to pieces

put the wind up someone

greatly upset

put someone's nose out of joint

bring tears to your eyes

galvanize^US

galvanise^UK

make someone scratch their head

push someon's buttons

destabilize^US

break someone's heart

knock the stuffing out of someone

destabilise^UK

give the cold shoulder

put off his or her stride

take the wind out of someone's sails

fill with consternation

muck up

hit a sour note

throw into uproar

pull the rug out from under

pull the rug from under

raise someone's eyebrows

shake out of your complacency

hit like ton of bricks

take the wind out of your sails

scare the living daylights out of

make someone's hair stand on end

be disagreeable

be an affront to

give offence

tread on someone's toes

make a big thing out of

make a mountain out of a molehill

tug at someone's heartstrings

harsh someone's mellow

cause to feel emotional strain

overdo

cause to feel mental strain

have an adverse effect on

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“If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.”

Verb

Cause continual trouble or distress to

give one the business

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“So, no awkward adolescents like him, no teenage angst, unrequited crushes or similar problems that plague parents.”

Verb

use strong-arm tactics on

To suffocate a person's space as if to coerce them to do something

crowd

pressurise^UK

pressurize^US

insist on

trouble

put pressure on

have someone do something

bring pressure to bear on

breathe down someone's neck

bring pressure to bear

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be uppermost in your thoughts

To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion

monopolise^UK

monopolize^US

become an obsession with

enthral^UK

enthrall^US

mesmerize^US

mesmerise^UK

appall^US

materialize^US

appal^UK

materialise^UK

terrorise^UK

terrorize^US

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spread like wildfire over

To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers

annex^US

colonize^US

burglarise^UK

colonise^UK

annexe^UK

burglarize^US

conduct an offensive on

spread like wildfire

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Verb

wear oneself to a frazzle

To cause to become tired, weary or fatigued

immobilize^US

paralyse^UK

paralyze^US

immobilise^UK

wear oneself to a shadow

confine to a wheelchair

make too many demands on

tighten

work too hard

work oneself into the ground

exert to the limit

run oneself into the ground

bring someone to their knees

drive into the ground

make severe demands on

make heavy demands on

ask too much of

put pressure on

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