Plague-ridden

Quick meaning: Plague-ridden is an adjective meaning Experiencing an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a place or community).

Meaning

Experiencing an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a place or community).

More Meanings

1. During which there is an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a time)
2. Infected with or suffering from bubonic plague or another epidemic illness. (of a person, animal, body or object)

Example Sentences

She picked up a letter from the table, handling it like a plague-ridden rag, and passed it to Hartley.

In the Middle Ages war parties sometimes dropped plague-ridden corpses into their enemies’ village wells.

Left in peace […] Europe’s cats might have pounced upon the plague-ridden rodents, saving the lives of tens of millions of people.

There was a saintly minorite, one Fra Cristofero, who came to tend the plague-ridden, and who himself was miraculously preserved from the contagion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fever-ridden, plagueful, pestilential, epidemic, diseaseful, pandemic.

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