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noun
Any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people.
is a specific kind of: infectious disease.
is a broader term that covers: pest, pestilence, plague | pest, pestilence, pestis, plague | Bornholm disease, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, epidemic pleurodynia, myosis.
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