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plagued

plagued is the simple past and past participle of plague.

Meaning of plague

Verb

plague (third-person singular simple present plagues, present participle plaguing, simple past and past participle plagued)

  1. (transitive) To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
    • Dame Gill did grin,
      As she went in,
      And Jill was plagu'd by Jack,
      Will Goat came by,
      And made Jack cry,
      And knock'd him on his back.1810, Jack and Jill, and old Dame Gill, York: J. Kendrew, page 7
  2. (transitive) To afflict with a disease or other calamity.
    • Natural catastrophes plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland.
    Synonyms:
    scourge, torment

See all 7 meanings of plague

Adjective

plagued (comparative more plagued, superlative most plagued)

  1. Constantly afflicted or relentlessly attacked (by someone or something).

Forms of plagued

comparativemore plagued
superlativemost plagued

Words formed from plagued

Questions about plagued

What does plagued mean?
Plagued means constantly afflicted or relentlessly attacked (by someone or something).
What is plagued the simple past and past participle of?
Plagued is the simple past and past participle of plague.
What part of speech is plagued?
Plagued is an adjective.

Words near plagued in the dictionary

  1. plague soldier beetles
  2. plague spot
  3. plague spots
  4. plague water
  5. plague-ridden
  6. plagued
  7. plagueful
  8. plagueless
  9. plaguelike
  10. plaguer
  11. plaguers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plagued (page history and authors); plague (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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