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TOEFL BNC: 24980 COCA: 23924

pestilence

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
pestilence /ˈpɛstələns/ noun
plural pestilences
pestilence
/ˈpɛstələns/
noun
plural pestilences
Learner's definition of PESTILENCE
literary
: a disease that causes many people to die瘟疫
[noncount]
[count]
usually singular通常用单数
TOEFL BNC: 24980 COCA: 23924

pestilence

noun

pes·​ti·​lence ˈpe-stə-lən(t)s How to pronounce pestilence (audio)
1
: a contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating
especially : bubonic plague
2
: something that is destructive or pernicious
I'll pour this pestilence into his ear William Shakespeare

Synonyms

Example Sentences

After years of war and pestilence, few people remained in the city. the fear that terrorists could unleash a pestilence that would wreak unspeakable havoc
Recent Examples on the Web And just as more diseases are expected to spill over into people as the range of pests and pathogens spreads in a warming world, plants too will face new or more aggressive pestilence within their native ecosystems or farmland. Wired, 6 July 2022 This confirmed that the pestilence mentioned on the tombstones was indeed the plague, which is spread from rodents to humans via fleas. Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 June 2022 Bačaq’s tombstone does not mention a cause of death, but other 1338–1339 tombstones do: mawtānā, or pestilence. Jen Pinkowski, Scientific American, 15 June 2022 Her first husband, communist Freddie Thorne, died of pestilence in Season 2, leaving her child fatherless. Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 9 June 2022 True-crime mania has spread like a pestilence, but this is the best the genre has to offer. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2022 Sickness, mental and physical; death by violence or pandemic; pestilence and war. Anna Zanardi Cappon, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022 At the start of the pandemic, Chelcie Parry was hunkered down in a damp, two-bedroom, no-living-room apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn, with a roommate, facing pestilence at every turn: outside was the threat of coronavirus, inside was black mold. New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022 There’s frost and heat, drought and rain, pestilence and fire raining down the sky. Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 20 May 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of pestilence was in the 14th century
TOEFL BNC: 24980 COCA: 23924

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