Scrabble?! PLAGUE

Definitions of PLAGUE in various dictionaries:

noun - 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 - any epidemic disease with a high death rate

noun - a swarm of insects that attack plants

noun - any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

noun - an annoyance

verb - cause to suffer a blight

verb - annoy continually or chronically

A widespread affliction or calamity, especially one seen as divine retribution.

A sudden destructive influx or injurious outbreak: a plague of locusts; a plague of accidents.

A cause of annoyance; a nuisance: “the plague of social jabbering” (George Santayana).

A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.

To pester or annoy persistently or incessantly.

To afflict with or as if with a disease or calamity: “Runaway inflation further plagued the wage- or salary-earner” (Edwin O.

verb - to harass or torment