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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | epidemic |
| Synonyms: | contagion, disease, endemic, infection, outbreak, plague, rash, scourge, sickness, virus |
| Main Entry: | contagion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infection |
| Synonyms: | bane, contamination, corruption, illness, miasma, pestilence, plague, poison, pollution, taint, transmission, venom, virus |
| Main Entry: | contamination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulteration |
| Synonyms: | contagion, corruption, decay, defilement, dirtying, disease, epidemic, filth, foulness, impurity, infection, pestilence, plague, poisoning, pollution, radioactivation, rottenness, spoliation, taint |
| Antonyms: | cleaning, cure, healing, purification, sterilization |
| 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: | epidemic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | widespread disease |
| Synonyms: | contagion, endemic, growth, outbreak, pest, pestilence, plague, rash, scourge, spread, upsurge, wave, what's going around |
| Notes: | an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is geographically widespread occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world |
| Main Entry: | impurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminant |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, contamination, corruption, defilement, dirt, filth, foreign matter, grime, pestilence, poisoning, pollutant, pollution, scum, stain, taint, uncleanness |
| Main Entry: | pest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person or thing that presents problem |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, badgerer, bane, besetment, blight, blister, bore, bother, botheration, bug*, contagion, crashing bore, creep, curse, drag, drip, epidemic, exasperation, headache, infection, irritant, irritation, nag, nudge, nuisance, pain in the neck, pain*, pesterer, pestilence, pill, plague*, scourge*, tease*, thorn in side, tormentor, trial*, trouble, vexation, virus* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plague |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease that is widespread |
| Synonyms: | affliction, contagion, curse, epidemic, hydra, infection, infestation, influenza, invasion, outbreak, pandemic, pestilence, rash, ravage, scourge |
| Main Entry: | scourge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plague, torment |
| Synonyms: | affliction, bane, correction, curse, infliction, misfortune, penalty, pest, pestilence, punishment, terror, visitation |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, delight, happiness |
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