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(archaic, uncountable) Infectious disease; pestilence, plague; (countable) sometimes used in curses such as a murrain on someone: an outbreak of such a disease; a plague.

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Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • (archaic, uncountable) Infectious disease; pestilence, plague; (countable) sometimes used in curses such as a murrain on someone: an outbreak of such a disease; a plague.
  • (countable, figurative, archaic) A widespread affliction, calamity, or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution; a plague.
  • (countable, veterinary medicine, chiefly historical) Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle or other livestock, such as anthrax, babesiosis, or rinderpest; or a particular epizootic thereof; also, an infectious disease affecting other animals, such as poultry.
  • (countable, by extension, phytopathology) An infectious disease affecting plants.
  • (obsolete)
  • [Adjective]
  • Disgusting or offensive, as if having an infectious disease; contemptible, despicable, loathsome, plaguey.
  • Used as an intensifier: to a great extent; extreme, intense.
  • [Adverb]
  • (figurative, obsolete) Used as an intensifier: extremely, very.

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