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Black Death

noun

1 Black Death

The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe.

synonym: Black Plague.

Dutch: pest, Zwarte Dood
Polish: czarna śmierć

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more


Moby thesaurus: African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, ambulatory plague, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black fever, black plague, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague ... show more.

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