Pestilence Synonyms

pĕstə-ləns
Any epidemic disease with a high death rate
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. plague
  2. pest
  3. disease
  4. epidemic
  5. blight
  6. destruction
  7. endemic
  8. evil
  9. sickness
  10. fatal epidemic
  11. scourge
  12. pestis
A pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. canker

Words Related to Pestilence

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Pestilence Sentence Examples

  • The pestilence was fearfully severe.

  • The nature of this pestilence has been a matter of much controversy, and some have doubted its being truly the plague.

  • A plague smote the city, and when it was removed to Ekron, pestilence followed in its wake.

  • Pestilence broke out in his army, which was so wasted as to be incapable of further operations in Italy.

  • London had been ravaged by plague on many former occasions, but the pestilence that began in December 1664 lives in history as "the Plague of London."

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