The Clue
Beleaguers (7 letter answer)
The Answer
PLAGUES
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Notes
The answer PLAGUES is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
PLAGUE as a noun:
1. (plague, pestilence, pest, pestis) = a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
2. (plague, pestilence, pest) = any epidemic disease with a high death rate
3. (infestation, plague) = a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers"
4. any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
5. an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"
PLAGUE as a verb:
1. (blight, plague) = cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
2. (harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke) = annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"