: a pestilence or plague especially affecting domestic animals
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Otherwise nature is outraged, floods will again sweep the land and murrains strike our cattle.
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murrain
noun
mur·rain
ˈmər-ən 
ˈmə-rən
: a disease that spreads among domestic animals or plants
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