Another word for pestilence

pestilence Synonyms

pestilence

epidemic, plague, endemic, sickness; see disease.

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

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