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Disease   /dɪzˈiz/   Listen
noun
Disease  n.  
1.
Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. (Obs.) "So all that night they passed in great disease." "To shield thee from diseases of the world."
2.
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. "Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved." "The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished."
Disease germ. See under Germ.
Synonyms: Distemper; ailing; ailment; malady; disorder; sickness; illness; complaint; indisposition; affection. Disease, Disorder, Distemper, Malady, Affection. Disease is the leading medical term. Disorder means much the same, with perhaps some slight reference to an irregularity of the system. Distemper is now used by physicians only of the diseases of animals. Malady is not a medical term, and is less used than formerly in literature. Affection has special reference to the part, organ, or function disturbed; as, his disease is an affection of the lungs. A disease is usually deep-seated and permanent, or at least prolonged; a disorder is often slight, partial, and temporary; malady has less of a technical sense than the other terms, and refers more especially to the suffering endured. In a figurative sense we speak of a disease mind, of disordered faculties, and of mental maladies.


verb
Disease  v. t.  (past & past part. diseased; pres. part. diseasing)  
1.
To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress. (Obs.) "His double burden did him sore disease."
2.
To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; used almost exclusively in the participle diseased. "He was diseased in body and mind."





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"Disease" Quotes from Famous Books



... that it was mine—mine, at last—I grew uxorious in its contemplation. Like the miser, I had my treasure at home, and I hastened home to survey it with precisely the same doubts, and hopes, and fears, which the disease of avarice prompts in the unhappy heart of its victim To this disease, in chief, I have to attribute all my future sorrows; but the time is not yet for that. It is my joys now that I have to contemplate and describe. How I dwelt, and how I dreamed! how ...
— Confession • W. Gilmore Simms
... consumption; abscesses were formed on his lungs, and he suffered acute spasms. Suddenly a complete change took place; and though through life he was a martyr to pain and debility, every symptom of pulmonary disease vanished. His nerves, which nature had formed sensitive to an unexampled degree, were rendered still more susceptible by the state of ...
— Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley • Mary W. Shelley
... American conditions about you every day, and so their value and advantage become commonplace and unnoted. To any young man afflicted with the disease of thinking life hard and burdens heavy in this Republic, I know of no remedy equal to a trip abroad. You will find things to admire in France; you will applaud things in Germany; you will see much in other lands that suggests modifications ...
— The Young Man and the World • Albert J. Beveridge
... Usually she doesn't know what is going on around her, but as soon as consciousness returns she wants religious consolation. She still refuses to take the sacrament for the dying, for she won't admit that she is approaching her end. Yet often, when the disease attacks her more sharply, she asks in mortal terror if everything is ready, for she is afraid to ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... practices and extensive nature preserves. Botswana has one of the world's highest known rates of HIV/AIDS infection, but also one of Africa's most progressive and comprehensive programs for dealing with the disease. ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency


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