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White plague   /waɪt pleɪg/   Listen
White plague

noun
1.
Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body.  Synonyms: consumption, phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease.
2.
An addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug).  Synonym: drug addiction.






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"White plague" Quotes from Famous Books



... every state in the Union with a half-million dollars with which to save the juvenile delinquents from criminal courts and schools of vice behind prison bars. The cost of one dreadnought, wisely spent each year in the fight against tuberculosis, would make the white plague in a single generation a disease as rare as smallpox ...
— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association



Words linked to "White plague" :   tb, wasting disease, dependency, alcohol addiction, addiction, T.B., alcoholism, habituation, heroin addiction, tuberculosis, phthisis, inebriation, cocaine addiction, consumption, narcotic, caffein addiction, dependence, drunkenness, nicotine addiction, dependance



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