- Awful silence, pet! It's a plague! - Awful silence, pet! It’s a plague! - Epidemic disease - Plague - Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence,
any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and
devastating. - Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious
to the moral character of great numbers.
- Contagious outbreak - Fast-spreading disease - Outbreak - Outbreak of an infectious disease - PIague - Plague - Rapid spread of an epic about a crooked dime
- Annoyance - Annoying person or thing - Blowfly, e.g. - Cane toad, cockroach, eg - Nuisance - A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. - Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is
troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.