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| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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accusable, accusative, accusatory, accused, accusing, anapologetical, criminatory, denunciatory, imputable, imputative, in custody, in detention, in the house of detention, in the lockup, in the watch, inexcusable, recriminatory, suspected, under a cloud, under surveillance, under suspicion, unjustifiable, unpardonable, vicious
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| Main Entry: | sickness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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afflicted with illness, ailing, anorectic, azotic, bedridden, broken, carious, catching, chlorotic, clonic, confined, congenital, conspurcated, contagious, contaminated, crample, cresty, crippled, cronk, cryptogenic, deadly, decayed, decrepit, deleterious, diseased, donsie, drooping, dysepulotic, dyspeptic, emphysematous, emunctory, endemic, envenomed, epidemic, epizootic, febrifacient, flagging, flatulent, furuncular, gasping, halting, healthless, helminthous, iatrogenic, ill, ill of, in a bad way, in danger, in declining health, in hospital, incurable, indigestible, indisposed, infectious, infirm, innutritious, insalubrious, insanable, invaletudinary, invalided, laid up, lame, lazarous, lectual, leprous, loimic, luetic, maliferous, mangy, mephitic, morbid, morbiferous, morbific, morbilious, moribund, morose, narcotic, nauseous, neuromimetic, noisome, nosocomial, nosopoetic, noxious, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, palsied, paralytic, peccant, peracute, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, phanerogenic, phthistic, poisoned, poisonous, poorly, prodromal, prosodemic, prostrate, purulent, qualmish, rabid, rotten, rotten at the core, rotten to the core, sanable, scorbutic, seasick, seedy, seized with, septic, sick, sickly, spavin, squeamish, stuporous, tabid, tainted, taken ill, taking, tenesmic, theriodic, touched in the wind, toxic, tussive, ulcerated, unbraced, uncongenial, ungenial, unhealthy, unsound, unwell, unwholesome, valetudinary, variolate, venomous, virulent, vitiated, weakened, weakly, withered, zymotic
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| Concept: | Accusation. |
| Category: | 2. Moral sentiments |
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-nouns
accusation, charge, imputation, slur, inculpation, exprobration, delation; crimination; incrimination, accrimination, recrimination; tu quoque argument; invective., denunciation, denouncement; libel, challenge, citation, arraignment; impeachment, appeachment; indictment, bill of indictment, true bill; lawsuit; condemnation., gravamen of a charge, head and front of one's offending, argumentum ad hominem; scandal (detraction); scandalum magnatum., accuser, prosecutor, plaintiff; relator, informer; appellant., accused, defendant, prisoner, panel, respondent; litigant.
-verbs
accuse, charge, tax, impute, twit, taunt with, reproach., brand with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a slur on; incriminate, criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account (censure); take to blame, take to task; put in the black book., inform against, indict, denounce, arraign; impeach, appeach; have up, show up, pull up; challenge, cite, lodge a complaint; prosecute, bring an action against [more]; blow upon., charge with, saddle with; lay to one's door, lay charge; lay the blame on, bring home to; cast in one's teeth, throw in one's teeth; cast the first stone at., have a rod in pickle for, keep a rod in pickle for; have a crow to pluck with., trump up a charge.
-adjectives
accusing; accusatory, accusative; imputative, denunciatory; recriminatory, criminatory., accused; suspected; under suspicion, under a cloud, under surveillance; in custody, in detention; in the lockup, in the watch house, in the house of detention., accusable, imputable; indefensible, inexcusable; unpardonable, unjustifiable; vicious.
-phrases
"the breath of accusation kills an innocent name" [Shelley]; "thou can'st not say I did it' [Macbeth].
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| Concept: | Disease. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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disease; illness, sickness; ailing, "all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper, distemperature., visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit., delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy; cachexia, atrophy, marasmus; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay (deterioration); decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration., taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation; epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, virus, pox., sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out., fever, calenture; inflammation., ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack., fatal disease (hopeless); dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system., [Disease of mind] idiocy [more]; insanity., martyr to disease; cripple; "the halt the lame and the blind"; valetudinary, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber., [Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology., [Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter; cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest.
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be ill; ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, have; droop, flag, languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine; gasp., keep one's bed; feign sickness (falsehood)., lay by, lay up; take a disease, catch a disease, catch an infection; break out.
-adjectives
diseased; ailing; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather [U.S.]; valetudinary., unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced. drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting., morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic; dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic; syntectic, syntectical; tabetic, varicose.
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| Antonyms: | health |
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| Concept: | [Absence, or want of order] Disorder. |
| Category: | 1. ORDER |
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disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; disunion; discord., confusion; confusedness; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U. S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles [Ovid]., turmoil; ferment (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.
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disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear; irregular, desultory; anomalous (unconformable); acephalous, deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical, immethodical; unsymmetric, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged; confused; deranged; topsy-turvy (inverted) [more]; shapeless; disjointed, out of joint., troublous; riotous (violent).
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irregularly; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down.
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the cart before the horse; chaos is come again; "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds" [Addison].
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| Antonyms: | order |
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