disease
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[edit] 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").
[edit] 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
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia 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.
- (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- N.N., The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7
- War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
- N.N., The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7
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[edit] Translations
an abnormal condition of the body causing discomfort or dysfunction
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[edit] Verb
disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)
- (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke VIII:
- Whyll he yett speake, there cam won from the rulers off the synagogis housse, which sayde to hym: Thy doughter is deed, disease not the master.
- 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.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke VIII:
- To infect with a disease.
