Disease

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms.
  • n. A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
  • n. Obsolete Lack of ease; trouble.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
  • n. Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
  • v. To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
  • v. To infect with a disease.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
  • n. An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.
  • v. To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
  • v. To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Lack or absence of ease; uneasiness; pain; distress; trouble; discomfort.
  • n. In pathology: In general, a morbid, painful or otherwise distressing physical condition, acute or chronic, which may result either in death or in a more or loss complete return to health; deviation from the healthy or normal condition of any of the functions or tissues of the body.
  • n. Specifically— An individual case of such a morbid condition; the complex series of pathological conditions causally related to one another exhibited by one person during one period of illness; an attack of sickness.
  • n. A special class of morbid conditions grouped together as exhibiting the same or similar phenomena (symptoms, course, result), as affecting the same organs, or as due to the same causes: as, the diseases of the lungs, as pneumonia, consumption; the diseases of the brain.
  • n. Any disorder or depraved condition or element, moral, mental, social, or political.
  • n. Certain inflammatory conditions of joints attendant on locomotor ataxia.
  • n. See the adjectives.
  • To make uneasy; pain; distress.
  • To affect with disease; make ill; disorder the body or mind of: used chiefly or only in the passive voice or the past participle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
  • Antonym
    disinfect    curer   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    malady    unwellness    illness    sickness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    malady    affection    indisposition    disorder    illness    distemper    sickness    complaint    ailment    ailing   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abdulaziz    Annamese    Aziz    Balinese    Beas    Belize    Bes    Burmese    Cadiz    Cantonese   
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    disorder    infection    illness    injury    pain    failure    condition    symptom    problem    crime