pestilence
IPA: pˈɛstʌɫʌns
noun
- Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
- (archaic) Anything harmful to morals or public order.
- The personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.
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Examples of "pestilence" in Sentences
- His wife died of the pestilence.
- Famine followed the war and pestilence.
- He died of pestilence at the age of 24.
- Our idea may be related to the pestilence.
- He is relentless to the point of pestilence.
- The kingdoms taste many dooms and pestilence.
- Some pestilence wiped out most of the marauding army.
- The final bonus track is a cover of a Pestilence song.
- He was carried off by the great pestilence which devastated Rome.
- The band then toured Germany in support of Pestilence and Autopsy.
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