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murrain

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Meaning

  1. noun Infectious disease; pestilence, plague; sometimes used in curses such as a murrain on someone: an outbreak of such a disease; a plague.
  2. noun A widespread affliction, calamity, or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution; a plague.
  3. noun Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle or other livestock, such as anthrax, babesiosis, or rinderpest; or a particular epizootic thereof; also, an infectious disease affecting other animals, such as poultry.
    water murrain
  4. noun An infectious disease affecting plants.
    potato murrain
  5. noun A poor-quality green-salted animal hide. Death, especially from an infectious disease. Rotting flesh, especially of an animal which has died from a disease; carrion.
  6. noun A poor-quality green-salted animal hide.
  7. noun Death, especially from an infectious disease.
  8. noun Rotting flesh, especially of an animal which has died from a disease; carrion.

Similar words

murrin murian qualm pest ague pestis murderment stallion plague pestilence mure

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Word family

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