- pestilence
- n1. epidemic, pandemic, pandemia, plague, zymosis, (of animals) Pathol. epizootic, (of animals) epizooty, (of animals) murrain, (of plants) epiphytotic; bubonic plague, black plague, black death; white plague, tuberculosis, TB, consumption, phthisis, pulmonary phthisis.2. curse, bane, scourge, affliction, infliction, visitation, torment, calamity; canker, cancer, blight, rot.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.