Usually means: Deadly infectious disease causing pandemics.
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  1. the plague: Wiktionary
  2. the plague, plague, the: Dictionary.com
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  1. Plague, The: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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  1. The Plague: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adverb:  (dated) Synonym of the hell (“expletive”)

Similar:
accursedly, cursefully, horribile dictu, poisonously, dreadly, veneficiously, evil, terribley, dretful, affrightfully, more...

Opposite:
health, wellness, prosperity, good health, well-being

Phrases:
avoid like the plague, avoid someone/something like the plague, avoid someone something like the plague, the black plague, A Journal of the Plague Year, more...

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Similar:
accursedly, cursefully, horribile dictu, poisonously, dreadly, veneficiously, evil, terribley, dretful, affrightfully, more...

Opposite:
health, wellness, prosperity, good health, well-being

Phrases:
avoid like the plague, avoid someone/something like the plague, avoid someone something like the plague, the black plague, A Journal of the Plague Year, The Plague Dogs, The White Plague, more...



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