bɪˈsɛt

blaɪt ˈtʃɛvi ˈtʃɪvi ˈtʃɪvi həˈɹæs ˈhæɹəs hæɹi hæɹi ˈhæsl ɪnfɛsˈteɪʃən məˈlɛst pɛst ˈpɛstələn(t)s pleɪɡ pleɪɡ pɹəˈvəʊk pɹəˈvoʊk annoy continually or chronically He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked This man harasses his female co-workers cause to suffer a blight Too much rain may blight the garden with mold an annoyance those children are a damn plague any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) a swarm of insects that attack plants a plague of grasshoppers any epidemic disease with a high death rate 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