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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

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