| NOUN | state | pestilence, plague, pest, pestis | 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 |
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| state | pestilence, plague, pest | any epidemic disease with a high death rate | |
| cognition | pestilence, canker | a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of |
| Sounds | peh'stahlahns | |
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| Rhymes | abeyance ... virulence: 273 rhymes with ahns... | |
| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonyms | plague, pest, pestis | |
| Narrower | bubonic plague, pestis bubonica, glandular plague | The most common form of the plague in humans |
| pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague, plague pneumonia | A rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person | |
| septicemic plague | An especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream | |
| Broader | epidemic disease | Any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people |
| Spanish | peste, pestilencia, pestis, plaga | |
| Catalan | pesta, pestis, plaga | |
| Meaning | Any epidemic disease with a high death rate. | |
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| Synonyms | plague, pest | |
| Broader | epidemic disease | Any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people |
| Spanish | plaga | |
| Adjectives | pestilent, pestilential | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease |
| Meaning | A pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of. | |
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| Example | "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation" | |
| Synonym | canker | |
| Broader | influence | A cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do |
| Adjectives | pestilent | exceedingly harmful |
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