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Experiencing an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a place or community)
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- 1930, Henry Handel Richardson (pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson), The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Book I, Australia Felix, Proem, That was in the days of the first great stampede to the goldfields, when the embryo seaports were as empty as though they were plague-ridden, and every man who had the use of his legs was on the wide bush-track, bound for the north.
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During which there is an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a time)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2011, Neil Howe and Richard Jackson, “Global Aging and the Crisis of the 2020’s,” investorsinsight.com, 12 January, 2011, Russia will be in the midst of the steepest and most protracted population implosion of any major power since the plague-ridden Middle Ages.
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Infected with or suffering from bubonic plague or another epidemic illness. (of a person, animal, body or object)
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