plague
 noun
 praga
EN Of all the plagues with which the land of the Pharaohs were smitten one plague alone, that of darkness, was called horrible.
GL De todas as pragas con que a terra dos Faraóns foi castigada soamente unha, a das tebras, foi chamada arrepiante.
 Fonte: RET (2442)
peste
EN We thrill, for example, with the most intense of "pleasurable pain" over the accounts of the Passage of the Beresina, of the Earthquake at Lisbon, of the Plague at London, of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, or of the stifling of the hundred and twenty-three prisoners in the Black Hole at Calcutta.
GL Estremecemos, por exemplo, coa máis intensa "dor agradable" ante o relato do Paso de Beresina, do Terremoto de Lisboa, da Peste de Londres, a matanza de San Bartolomeo, ou da morte por asfixia dos cento vintetrés prisioneiros no Buraco Negro de Calcuta.
Fonte: BUR (6)
transitive verb
asolar
EN For years 'community mothers' have been helping to bring up children in Colombia, a country plagued by violence and poverty
GL Desde hai anos, a institución das nais comunitarias contribúe á educación dos nenos de Colombia, un país de corenta millóns de habitantes asolado pola violencia e a pobreza.
Fonte: C17 (846)
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placard, placate, place, placenta, placid, placidity, placidly, placing, plagiarism, plague, plaid, plain, plainly, plaintiff, plaintive, plaintively, plait, plan, plane