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Synonyms for plague

Synonyms for plague: infestation, blight and harry. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

3 synonyms · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The 3 synonyms for plague

Interchangeable with plague in this sense

Audited under plague's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one plague carries in that sense.

infestationnoun, in the sense "a swarm of insects that attack plants"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name plague as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

blightblight is a verb in the sense "cause to suffer a blight"
harryharry is a verb in the sense "annoy continually or chronically"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under plague and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineGroups and collections

a swarm of insects that attack plants

A plague of grasshoppers.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

infestation

Same sentence, swapped: A infestation of grasshoppers.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for plague in the sentence quoted.

pest
pestilence
puzzle

Where plague turns up in the game

plague is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play plague

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so plague reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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