Noun white plague has 2 senses
  1. pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague - involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
    --1 is a kind of tuberculosis, TB, T.B.
  2. drug addiction, white plague - an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
    --2 is a kind of addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation
    --2 has particulars:
     alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness; cocaine addiction; heroin addiction; caffein addiction; nicotine addiction
,
TOP