Synonyms of the word

pestilence

• n. Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.

canker

• n. (phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
• n. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or…
• n. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
• n. A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
• n. An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion…
• n. An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
• v. (transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
• v. (transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
• v. (intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
• v. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

influence

• n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development…
• n. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
• n. A person or thing exerting such power or action.
• n. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the…
• n. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
• n. (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
• v. (transitive) To have an affect on using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify,…
• v. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

pest

• n. (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic.
• n. An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
• n. An invasive weed.
• n. An annoying person.

plague

• n. (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused…
• n. (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
• n. A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
• n. A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
• v. (transitive) To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
• v. (transitive) To afflict with a disease or other calamity.