Pestilence
nounid
109882·updated May 18, 2026verified
a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
polysemous
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Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- cankerpest
- plural
- Pestilences
- possessive
- Pestilence's
- pluralpossessive
- Pestilences'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
- §2
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- §3
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
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