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Definition of disease :
1. An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.
2. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
3. To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
4. To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; - used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.
Synonyms:
insanity, visitation, plague, nervous disorder, spell, complex, distemper, pathological case, contagion, unsoundness, pathological condition, ill, epidemic, health, seizure, symptomatology, temperature, affliction, psychosomatic illness, morbidity, functional disorder
disease (part of speech: noun)
disorder, ague, handicap, complication, condition, spasm, nausea, infliction, symptom, affection, virus, apoplexy, complaint, sickness, breakdown, syndrome, bug, illness, queasiness, ailment, indisposition, attack, malaise, curse, unhealthiness, disability, fever, debility, sickliness, decrepitude, malady, collapse, infection, pestilence, infirmity, feverishness
unhealthiness (part of speech: noun)
insalubrity, pathology, contagiousness, unwholesomeness, noxiousness, deadliness, contamination, toxicity, malignancy, poisonousness
Usage examples:
- That is why there is so much disease. - "Best Russian Short Stories", Various.
- Prayer has had no more effect upon disease than it has upon health. - "An Atheist Manifesto", Joseph Lewis.
- But I would not stay at home for a nursery disease, and that's what I've got. - "Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens", Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009.