Synonyms for plaguing

Grammar : Verb

Spell : pleyg

Phonetic Transcription : pleɪg

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Définition of plaguing

Origin : late 14c., plage, "affliction, calamity, evil, scourge;" early 15c., "malignant disease," from Old French plage (14c.), from Late Latin plaga, used in Vulgate for "pestilence," from Latin plaga "stroke, wound," probably from root of plangere "to strike, lament (by beating the breast)," from or cognate with Greek (Doric) plaga "blow," from PIE *plak- (2) "to strike, to hit" (cf. Greek plazein "to drive away," plessein "to beat, strike;" Old English flocan "to strike, beat;" Gothic flokan "to bewail;" German fluchen, Old Frisian floka "to curse").
The Latin word also is the source of Old Irish plag (genitive plaige) "plague, pestilence," German Plage, Dutch plaage. Meaning "epidemic that causes many deaths" is from 1540s; specifically in reference to bubonic plague from c.1600. Modern spelling follows French, which had plague from 15c. Weakened sense of "anything annoying" is from c.1600.

verb annoy, disturb

Example sentences :

Mr. Johnson has hit on the most effectual manner of plaguing us all.
Extract from : « Lady Susan » by Jane Austen

And if you only knew how my wristbands are plaguing me you'd be very sorry.
Extract from : « Hortus Inclusus » by John Ruskin

Perhaps I ought to say rather, the want of which was plaguing him.
Extract from : « Cradock Nowell, Vol. 2 (of 3) » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore

Only I want to thank you for not plaguing me with exhortations.
Extract from : « The Home at Greylock » by Elizabeth Prentiss

The priest goes on talking about it, and plaguing him with it, when he wants to forget it.
Extract from : « Ravenshoe » by Henry Kingsley

Now you see what manner of life is mine: I must go to a plaguing council!'
Extract from : « The Fifth Queen » by Ford Madox Ford

I was ever on at him—plaguing—plaguing him to spare me for the time.
Extract from : « When Ghost Meets Ghost » by William Frend De Morgan

I thought, perhaps, your rheumatism was plaguing you too much.
Extract from : « The Green Book » by Mr Jkai

Why did you go on plaguing me, when you saw I never gave you an answer to one of them?
Extract from : « Willing to Die » by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

If the idea that was plaguing him was true, sound, valid—he'd have to have the files.
Extract from : « Bear Trap » by Alan Edward Nourse

Antonyms for plaguing

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