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PLAGUE

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plague I. substantiv

1. plagă, flagel, nenorocire, calamitate, năpastă;

a plague of rats o invazie de şobolani.

2. (fam.) neplăcere, supărare; nelinişe.

3. (med.) ciumă, pestă; molimă, epidemie;

the plague pestă bubonică;

a plague on him! să fie afurisit! să-l ia naiba!

plague II. verb tranzitiv

1. a trimite o nenorocire asupra (cu gen.), a năpăstui.

2. (fam.) a plictisi, a necăji, a sâcâi.

3. a infecta cu ciumă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

If you have plagued him, he's sober and walks slowly, as if he wanted to go back and do his work better.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Also called: Bubonic Plague, Bubonic plague, Pneumonic plague

(Plague, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Very well; I will not plague you any more.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

"Well!" said Mrs. Jennings, "that is HER revenge. Everybody has a way of their own. But I don't think mine would be, to make one son independent, because another had plagued me."

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Charles Hodges will plague me to death, I dare say; but I shall cut him very short.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

How the pleasing plague had stolen on him he could not say; and before he had expressed the same sentiment with a little variation of words three times over, his sister eagerly interrupted him with, Ah, my dear Henry, and this is what took you to London!

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

If this plague was a key moment in human history that killed between a third and half the population of the Mediterranean world in just a few years, as is often claimed, we should have evidence for it, but our survey of datasets found none.

(Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?, National Science Foundation)

For a while he watched it sinking in the deep clear water; then sprang up and danced for joy, and again fell upon his knees and thanked Heaven, with tears in his eyes, for its kindness in taking away his only plague, the ugly heavy stone.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

"Begin to do something now by not plaguing his life out," said Meg sharply.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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