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| 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 |
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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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.
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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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