German-English translations for plagen

• afflict
• ail
  Have some chicken soup. Its good for what ails you.
• annoy
  Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off
  to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade
• badger
  He kept badgering her about her bad habits
• bedevil
  Guerrilla attacks continued to bedevil the larger armys supply routes.
• cause pain plague
• chafe
  to chafe a cable
  A cable chafes
• devil
  The devil in me wants to let him suffer.
  Those two kids are devils in a toy store.
  That math problem was a devil.
• dog
  The dog barked all night long
  She’s a real dog
  You lucky dog!
• fret
  to fret the surface of water
  A wristband frets on the edges
  Rancour frets in the malignant breast
• harrow
• hassle
  I went through a lot of hassle to be the first to get a ticket.
  The unlucky boy was hassled by a gang of troublemakers on his way home.
• heckle
  Promise that you wont heckle me after my performance.
• persecute
  He who persecutes one will persecute all
• pester
• plague
  Just as, in the past, there were the plagues of Egypt. Genauso verhielt es sich in der Vergangenheit mit den ägyptischen Plagen.
  Medical science is still unable to stop cancer, which is becoming one of the greatest plagues of humanity. Die medizinischen Wissenschaften sind weiterhin nicht in der Lage, den Krebs, der sich zu einer der größten Plagen der Menschheit entwickelt, zu stoppen.
  Mr President, the BSE crisis, or 'mad cow disease' , is being presented to us rather as if it were one of the ten plagues of Egypt. Herr Präsident, man hat zuweilen den Eindruck, die BSE-Krise, die Krise des Rinderwahns, wird uns wie eine der zehn ägyptischen Plagen dargestellt.
• scourge
  Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere
  He flogged him with a scourge
• torment
  He was bitter from the torments of the divorce system.
  The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
• worry
  Stop worrying about your test, it’ll be fine.
  Your tone of voice worries me.
  The President was worried into military action by persistent advisors.

Related words

• abplagen
• herumplagen
• sich plagen
• sich (ab)plagen
• sich herumplagen