Plagued

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Plague \Plague\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plagued}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Plaguing}.]
     1. To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural
        evil of any kind.
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              Thus were they plagued
              And worn with famine.                 --Milton.
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     2. Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
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              She will plague the man that loves her most.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     Syn: To vex; torment; distress; afflict; harass; annoy;
          tease; tantalize; trouble; molest; embarrass; perplex.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  plagued
       adj : (often followed by `with' or used in combination) troubled
             by or encroached upon in large numbers; "waters
             infested with sharks"; "shark-infested waters"; "the
             locust-overrun countryside"; "drug-plagued streets"
             [syn: {infested}, {overrun}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "plagued":
     annoyed, anxious, badgered, baited, bedeviled, beset, bothered,
     bugged, bullyragged, chivied, deviled, distressed, dogged,
     embarrassed, fretted, grubby, harassed, harried, haunted, heckled,
     hectored, hounded, inconvenienced, infested, irked, lousy, mindful,
     nagged, needled, nipped at, obsessed, pedicular, pediculous,
     persecuted, perturbed, pestered, picked on, put to it, puzzled,
     ragged, rankled, ratty, ravaged, remembering, sore beset, teased,
     teeming, tormented, troubled, unable to forget, vexed, wormy,
     worried, worried sick, worried stiff