pestilence

(pĕs'tə-ləns)
n.

1. A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.
2. A pernicious, evil influence or agent.

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IN BRIEF: A deadly disease; plague. Also: Something evil in effect; poison.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. — Percy Shelley (1792-1822)

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A virulent contagious epidemic or infectious epidemic disease.

For a list of words related to pestilence, see:

• Diseases and Infestations - pestilence: severe contagious or infectious epidemic disease
• Unnatural Deaths - pestilence: devastating epidemic of contagious disease

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - pest, pestilens

Nederlands (Dutch)
plaag, verderfelijkheid

Français (French)
n. - peste (littér)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Seuche, Pest

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (θανατηφόρος) λοιμός, λοιμώδης νόσος, πανούκλα

Italiano (Italian)
flagello, pestilenza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pestilência (f)

Русский (Russian)
мор, бедствие

Español (Spanish)
n. - plaga, azote, flagelo, pestilencia, peste

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - pest, farsot

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
瘟疫

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 瘟疫

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 페스트, 흑사병, 해독

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 悪疫, 疫病

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) وباء, طاعون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מגיפה (קטלנית), דלקת המפשעה‬

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