Synonyms:
blight, plague
Meaning: cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
Synonyms:
harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
Meaning: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
Usage examples
"Plague?
What plague?"
"What plague, indeed?
"Very well; I will not plague you any more.
It took a world-wide plague to turn the tide.
But my wife is greatly worried about this plague.
The plague can't come where this article is, my boy!"
What a plague do it matter if it is an English settlement?
This plague was like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky to us.
Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him."