Meaning of disease | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
3. A pathological condition of mind or body:ailment, complaint, disorder, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness.
4. A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
   countable, uncountable
5. (an) illness. She's suffering from kidney disease; poverty and disease. siekte, kwaal مَرَض болеcт doença nemoc, choroba, nákaza die Krankheit sygdom; -sygdom ασθένειαenfermedad, mal haigus بیماری؛ مرض sairaus maladieמחלה बीमारी bolest betegség penyakit sjúkdómur malattia 病気 질병 liga slimība penyakit ziektesykdom, –syke, lidelsechoroba ناروغى، جسمى يا فكرى ناروغتيا،مرض علت doença boală болезнь choroba bolezen bolest sjukdom[ar] โรคภัยไข้เจ็บ hastalık 疾病 хвороба, захворювання مرض bệnh 疾病
6. An abnormal condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, inflammation, environmental factors, or genetic defect, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs, symptoms, or both.
7. A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
8. Obsolete Lack of ease; trouble.
   Obsolete
9. (Pathology) any impairment of normal physiological function affecting all or part of an organism, esp a specific pathological change caused by infection, stress, etc, producing characteristic symptoms; illness or sickness in general
10. (Plant Pathology) a corresponding condition in plants
11. any situation or condition likened to this: the disease of materialism.
12. a disordered or abnormal condition of an organ or other part of an organism resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, nutritional deficiency, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness.
13. any harmful condition, as of society.

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Examples

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

“[…] diſeaſes deſperate growne, By deſperate appliance are releeued, Or not at all.”

“The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; […]”

“Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.”

“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes […] And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases.”

“Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.”

“War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.”

“To ſhield thee from diſeaſes of the world, […]”

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