Synonyms for disease
dɪˈzizdis·ease

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1. diseasenoun

   Synonyms:
   illness, rot, malady

2. diseasenoun

   To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.

   The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.

   Synonyms:
   rot, illness, malady

3. diseaseverb

   To infect with a disease.

   Synonyms:
   rot, illness, malady

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1. disease

   Disease is the general term for any deviation from health; in a more limited sense it denotes some definite morbid condition; disorder and affection are rather partial and limited; as, a nervous affection; a disorder of the digestive system. Sickness was generally used in English speech and literature, till the close of the eighteenth century at least, for every form of physical disorder, as abundantly appears in the English Bible: "Jesus went about ... healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people," Matt. iv, 23; "Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died," 2 Kings xiii, 14. There is now, in England, a tendency to restrict the words sick and sickness to nausea, or "sickness at the stomach," and to hold ill and illness as the only proper words to use in a general sense. This distinction has received but a very limited acceptance in the United States, where sick and sickness have the earlier and wider usage. We speak of trifling ailments, a slight indisposition, a serious or a deadly disease; a slight or severe illness; a painful sickness. Complaint is a popular term, which may be applied to any degree of ill health, slight or severe. Infirmity denotes a chronic or lingering weakness or disability, as blindness or lameness.

   Synonyms:
   affection, ailment, complaint, disorder, distemper, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, sickness, unhealthiness, unsoundness

   Antonyms:
   health, robustness, soundness, strength, sturdiness, vigor

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1. disease

   Synonyms:
   complaint, disorder, illness, indisposition, distemper, ailment, malady, sickness

   Antonyms:
   health, convalescence, sanity, salubrity

Princeton's WordNet

1. diseasenoun

   an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

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1. • Illness

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1. medical condition

   a type of disease that affect’s physical health

   mark had a medical condition in his heart, luckily the doctors treated it

   Submitted by cj_t on July 9, 2023  

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1. diseasenoun

   Synonyms:
   disorder, distemper, malady, complaint, ail, ailment, sickness, illness, indisposition

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1. diseasenoun

   Synonyms:
   ailment, disorder, malady, complaint, affection, distemper, plague, pestilence, pest, epidemic, endemic

   Antonyms:
   health, vigor

   Associated words:
   nosology, nosography, etiology, nosogeny, pathology, pathologist, pathological, pathogeny, therapeutics, symptomatology, diagnosis, pathognomonic, diagnostics, semeiology, semeiography, clinic, polyclinic, prognosis, contagion, infection, contagious, infectious, zoonosology, enantiopathy, loimography, loimology, quarantine, pathogene, germ, microbe, bacteria, bacillus, incubation

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1. List of paraphrases for "disease":

   illness, diseases, sickness, illnesses, sick, morbidity, maladie, malady, epidemic, condition, ailment, ill-health, ill, infection, disorder, pathological, league, morbid, pathology, affection

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1. Jill Biden:

   Injustice and corruption, poverty and pollution, disease and despair. They aren't contained by any borders, if we learned anything from the Covid-19 pandemic, from these last few years of sickness and sorrow, it's how one deadly virus can move through the world. How hunger and violence are woven together. How a war in Europe can ripple through stock markets and supermarkets. And here, how the loss of trees in your Amazon can take a piece of the future from all of us.

2. Rachael Jonrow:

   If your life has not already been touched by an antibiotic resistant disease, it probably will be at some point.

3. Xavier Becerra:

   This Trump administration policy turns our universities into hotspots of the disease. This Trump administration policy is just unlawful, This Trump administration policy's dangerous and This Trump administration policy's morally reprehensible.

4. Tara Vijayan:

   More commonly, however, if the flu is going to cause severe disease it is because it disrupts the lining of the respiratory tract such that the lungs become more susceptible to other bacterial pneumonias, generally, those who are unvaccinated and have multiple medical problems or have lowered immune systems are at highest risk, but we have seen death in younger otherwise healthy people.

5. Charles Bangham:

   The good news is that both the antibodies and the T-cells [ from vaccination ] seem to be quite well maintained for months. There's a slight drop in their concentration, but it's very small, it continues to provide very good protection -- the immunity against severe disease and death is very well maintained.