Pestilences Synonyms

A serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pests
  2. epidemics
  3. plagues
  4. scourges
  5. sicknesses
  6. evils
  7. destructions
  8. blights
A pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cankers

Pestilences Sentence Examples

  • In the 18th century several pestilences are recorded without description.

  • Whether in all the pestilences known by this name the disease was really the same may admit of doubt, but it is clear that in some at least it was the bubonic plague.

  • Ibn Batesta notices two destructive pestilences in the 14th century, and Ferishta one in 1443, which he calls ta'un, and describes as very unusual in India.

  • Sassari was sacked by the French in 1527, and disastrous pestilences are recorded in 1528, 1580 and 1652.

  • Population was practically stationary for centuries owing to pestilences and the large proportion of deaths among infants.

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