plague
/pleɪg/ noun [C]Definition
› a serious disease that spreads quickly and kills a lot of people
a plague of sth › a large number of something unpleasant that causes a lot of damage: a plague of rats
(Definition of plague noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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