plague vs pain

plague and pain both are nouns.

plague and pain both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plague	Yes	No	Yes	No
pain	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, pain is a hypernym of plague; that is, pain is a word with a broader meaning than plague:

plague: an annoyance
pain: something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness

Other hypernyms of plague include annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain in the ass, pain in the neck.

plague (noun)	pain (noun)
an annoyance	a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)	something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
a swarm of insects that attack plants	emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
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	a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
any epidemic disease with a high death rate

plague (verb)	pain (verb)
annoy continually or chronically	cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
cause to suffer a blight	cause emotional anguish or make miserable

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