Measles

Definitions

1. An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.
   uncountable
2. Any disease causing red rashes.
   obsolete, uncountable
3. Used as an intensifier.
   obsolete, uncountable
4. Synonym of cysticercosis: A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae.
   uncountable
5. Any disease causing a tree's bark to become rough and irregular.
   obsolete, uncountable
6. A discreet assassination made to look like death from any natural cause.
   US, jargon, uncountable

Equivalents

49 more languages

العربيةالحصبةحصبة

Azərbaycan diliqızılca

Беларускаяадзёр

Българскиморбили

Bosanskifrusmale boginjemorbiliodraospiceрубеола+ 3 more

Catalàxarampió

Češtinaspalničky

Danskmæslinger

Ελληνικάιλαρά

Esperantomorbilo

Eestileetrid

فارسیسرخک

Suomimeslinkimorbiilirokkotuhkarokko+ 1 more

Gaeilgebruitíneach

Galegosarampeloxarampón

עבריתחצבת

हिन्दीखसरा

Hrvatskifrusmale boginjemorbiliodraospiceрубеола+ 3 more

Magyarkanyaró

Հայերենկարմրուկ

Bahasa Indonesiacampak

Íslenskamislingar

Italianomorbillo

日本語麻疹

ភាសាខ្មែរកញ្ជ្រឹល

한국어과거홍역

Latinasinapionemsirimpio

LëtzebuergeschRiedelen

Македонскисипаници

Монголулаан бурхан

Bahasa Melayucampak

Maltiħosba

Nederlandsmazelenmorbilli

PolskiOdra

Portuguêssarampo

Românăpojarrujeolă

Русскийкорь

Slovenčinaosýpky

Српскиfrusmale boginjemorbiliodraospiceрубеола+ 3 more

Svenskamässling

Kiswahilisuruaukambi

தமிழ்அம்மைசின்னமுத்துதட்டம்மை

ไทยหัด

Tagalogtigdas

Türkçekızamık

ئۇيغۇرچەقىزىل

Українськакір

اردوخسرہ

Tiếng Việtsoi

Examples

“Maybe it's the 'measles. They say⟳ they're going around the neighborhood.”

“Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember⟳ reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it.”

“In the camps a case of measles is defined as a generalized rash of three or more days duration, with a fever of at least 38.8°C.., and any one of the following: cough, coryza or conjunctivitis.”

“Although the MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988, Britain offered separate⟳ measles injections until 1999.”

“Why the meazills, should you stand⟳ heere, with your traine...”

“The Swyne dyed of the Measils.”

“Porcine measles, thought by classical writers to be leprosy, is actually the result⟳ of tapeworm cysts which cause ulcerations of the pig's tongue.”

“Their fruit-trees are subject to two diseases, the Meazels... and lowsiness.”

“Others take⟳ a fether, and dippe it in the saide water, and therwith they annoynte all the Measells of the Face⟳ when they are come⟳ forth.”

“Measles. When prints are imperfectly fixed, the appearance presented is very similar to that of the same disease in the human subject. Hence the name⟳.”

“The stars, like⟳ measles, fade⟳ at last⟳.”

“The Lady Tofaa also had a red measle of paint⟳ on her forehead between her eyes.”

“How do I get⟳ the measles out of an Indian paper print⟳, Lovejoy?... Measles is trade⟳ nickname for foxing, those brown spots... that trouble⟳ books, prints, and watercolors.”

“[…] they would prefer⟳ having him "die⟳ of the measles," as wags at the CIA put⟳ it, than be punished by legal means. If there is no convenient way of administering the "measles," they may even favor simply letting him go.”

“Such final solutions, sometimes referred to as termination with extreme prejudice, are known in the CIA as dying of the measles — that is, the death appears to be of natural causes.”

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