cancer [kan-ser] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
cancer [kan-ser]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: malignant growth
Synonyms: C, big C, canker, carcinoma, corruption, disease, long illness, malignancy, sickness, tumor
Antonyms: benignity
Main Entry: curse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misfortune wished upon someone
Synonyms: affliction, bane, burden, calamity, cancer, cross, disaster, evil, evil eye, hydra, jinx, ordeal, pestilence, plague, scourge, torment, tribulation, trouble, vexation, voodoo
Main Entry: disease
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ailment, affliction
Synonyms: ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, convulsions, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, flu, hemorrhage, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, pathosis, plague, seizure, sickliness, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, unhealthiness, unsoundness, upset, virus, visitation
Notes: decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning
illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
Antonyms: health
Example Sentences
  • Skin cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal skin cells.
  • Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body.
  • Prostate cancer is a malignant tumor that arises in the prostate gland.
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Main Entry: growth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tumor
Synonyms: cancer, cancroid, excrescence, fibrous tissue, fibrousness, fungus, lump, mole, outgrowth, parasite, polyp, swelling, thickening, wen
Main Entry: malady
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disease
Synonyms: ache, affection, affliction, ailment, attack, blight, bug*, cancer, complaint, condition, contagion, debility, disability, disorder, distemper, epidemic, fever, flu, ill health, illness, infection, infirmity, inflammation, plague, sickness, syndrome, virus
Main Entry: plague
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: annoyance, curse
Synonyms: affliction, aggravation, bane, besetment, blast, blight, bother, botheration, calamity, cancer, evil, exasperation, hydra, irritant, nuisance, pain, pest, problem, scourge, thorn in side, torment, trial, vexation
Antonyms: advantage, good fortune, good luck
Main Entry: poison
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: substance that causes harm, death
Synonyms: adulteration, bacteria, bane, blight, cancer, contagion, contamination, corruption, germ, infection, malignancy, miasma, toxicant, toxin, toxoid, venin, venom, virus
Antonyms: antidote
Main Entry: toxin
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: poison
Synonyms: blight, cancer, contagion, contamination, germ, infection, noxious substance, poisonous substance, toxicant, toxoid, venom, virus
Main Entry: tumor
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abnormal growth in animate being
Synonyms: bump, cancer, carcinoma, cyst, lump, neoplasm, sarcoma, swelling, tumefaction
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