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epidemic

noun

1 epidemic

A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time.

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Dutch: epidemisch, epidemie
Polish: epidemia, zaraza

adjective

1 epidemic

especially of medicine Of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously.

Roget 657: insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome; morbific, morbiferous; mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential; ... show more

Roget 655: diseased; ailing etc. v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; ... show more

Roget 73: unassembled etc. (assemble) etc. 72; dispersed etc. v.; sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic ... show more

Roget 78: general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping; encyclopedical, widespread etc. (dispersed) 73.    universal; catholic, catholical; ... show more

Polish: nagminny, epidemiczny


Moby thesaurus: abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ambulatory plague, ample, aplenty, average, besetting, black death, black plague, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bubonic plague, catching, cellulocutaneous plague, common, communicable, compact ... show more.

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