I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
avoid...like the plague (= try hard to avoid him )
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Why did you speak to him? You usually avoid him like the plague .
bubonic plague
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bubonic
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Monservate was demolished after an outbreak of bubonic plague , an unusual fate for a station.
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Global incidences of cholera, tuberculosis, diphtheria and bubonic plague have all increased significantly in the last five years.
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Later on, my nursing studies taught me it had been a form of bubonic plague .
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You know, the ones about the bubonic plague and all that.
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Thus, there seems little doubt that it was bubonic plague which struck Chesterfield in 1586-87.
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Elsewhere, typhus carried off many who had been weakened by starvation; in Chesterfield the pestilence was almost certainly bubonic plague .
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The writer's po-faced style occasionally irritates: do people really need reminding that cases of bubonic plague should be treated immediately?
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Hisey said rodents can carry bubonic plague and other diseases and attract fleas.
■ VERB
avoid
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As you know, the best commercial travel pictures avoid people like the plague .
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I guess I have avoided it like the plague , without much wanting to admit my cowardice.
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Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague .
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Trees evenly spaced, at regulation height, and all plumb vertical, must be avoided like the plague .
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Unless they are quite brilliant, jokes are best avoided in essays. Avoid cliches like the plague ! 6.
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The Profitboss avoids committees like the plague .
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The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague .
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But if you just want to use your computer for word-processing or web-surfing, avoid it like the plague .
die
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Sixty-two villagers died of the plague in the seventeenth century.
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At about the same time, his two legitimate sons died of the plague .
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He died in 1167 of plague after the defeat of the army near Tusculum.
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Women died in labor, men died in battle, millions died in plagues .
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Compliance sometimes led to delay in burial, though there was a waiver for anyone dying of the plague .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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AIDS has been called a sexual plague .
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an outbreak of plague
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His speech carried a surprising pledge to end by March a nationwide plague of salary arrears.
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I was not comfortable talking to kids, particularly boys, and I avoided the older ones like the plague .
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Meanwhile she was not to set foot outside the door, as a plague of field-mice infested the estate.
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The plague spreads: more atoms split, and then yet more.
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There are now three people dead - it's like a plague that's struck the whole Lossie complex.
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Though relatively healthy animals, state health officials warn that they are notoriously susceptible to bubonic plague .
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Yet the final image of him working with plague victims transforms him into a heroic character.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
still
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He had, nevertheless, put his finger on a problem that still plagues museums.
■ NOUN
life
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You've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I've worked here.
problem
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Perhaps this is a reflection of the problems that have plagued nuclear fission.
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Perhaps the most noticeable earnings problem has plagued the semiconductor group, the hottest sector through the first three quarters of 1995.
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The visitors were again struck by injury; a problem which has plagued them all season.
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Yet the same problems which plagued the civil courts prevailed.
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Bugel wants to correct the problems that plagued his rushing defense and offense against the Chargers.
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He had, nevertheless, put his finger on a problem that still plagues museums.
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Only this season, his second in Tucson, has Davis avoided the myriad off-court problems that plagued his career since childhood.
■ VERB
continue
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But the injured continued to plague the system with their suits, and finally a bargain was struck.
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Yet the ageless question continued to plague us.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Elway has been plagued all season by back problems.
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Heavy rains continue to plague the state.
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Social problems plague these low-income communities.
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The area is plagued by soil erosion and flooding.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fires continued to burn elsewhere in the West in states plagued by one of the worst droughts of the century.
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Frederick was plagued with one illness after another throughout his childhood, mainly suffering from asthma and other breathing problems.
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Louka is also plagued by the police who are very suspicious about his bogus marriage.
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Nevertheless the Republicans, plagued by continuing factional disputes over strategy, tactics and supply, proved unable to recapture lost territory.
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Perhaps the most noticeable earnings problem has plagued the semiconductor group, the hottest sector through the first three quarters of 1995.
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Price inflation plagued the distribution of imported goods and was aggravated by bottlenecks in ports like Khorramshahr and beyond.
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Some say these were sent by the Witch King to plague him.
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Wanda Kaczynski is plagued by guilt.