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English
Etymology
Middle English disese from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise from Old French desaise (dis- + ease). Displaced native Middle English adle, audle "disease" (from Old English ādl "disease, sickness"), Middle English cothe, coathe "disease" (from Old English coþu "disease").
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /dɪˈziːz/, SAMPA: /dI"zi:z/
- (US) enPR: dĭ-zēzʹ, IPA: /dɪˈziz/, SAMPA: /dI"ziz/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːz
Noun
Wikipedia has an article on: DiseaseWikipedia disease (plural diseases)
- (pathology) An abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.
Synonyms
Verb
to disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)
- (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
- mote he soft himselfe appease, / And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth; / His double burden did him sore disease.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
- To infect with a disease.
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