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ˈpɛs tl ənspesti·lence

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  1. plague, pestilence, pest, pestisnoun

    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

    Synonyms:
    pesterer, canker, infestation, pestis, gadfly, plague, pest, cuss, blighter

  2. plague, pestilence, pestnoun

    any epidemic disease with a high death rate

    Synonyms:
    pesterer, canker, infestation, pestis, gadfly, plague, pest, cuss, blighter

  3. pestilence, cankernoun

    a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of

    "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst"

    Synonyms:
    pest, plague, canker sore, canker, pestis

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  1. pestilencenoun

    Synonyms:
    plague, pest, BLIGHT, contagious distemper

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  1. pestilencenoun

    Synonyms:
    plague, scourge, fatal epidemic

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  1. List of paraphrases for "pestilence":

    stench, plague, vermin, epidemic

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How to use pestilence in a sentence?

  1. Woody Allen, Without Feathers:

    Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?

  2. William Blake:

    He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

  3. Woody Allen, "Without Feathers":

    Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?

  4. George Bernard Shaw:

    In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

  5. Seán O'Casey:

    Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.


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