disease
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Displaced native Middle English adle, audle (“disease”) (from Old English ādl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), Middle English cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from Old English coþu (“disease”), see coath). By surface analysis, dis- + ease.
Inflected forms:
form: diseases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dis-ease
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: diseases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: diseasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: diseased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: diseased
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dis-ease
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and their fruit withered.
The exposed workers had some kind of disease that left their skin splotchy and their faces 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.
Thanks to that connection between cardiovascular and brain health, taking steps to prevent cardiovascular disease or other chronic diseases – such as maintaining a healthy diet and exercise – can benefit the brain too, said Vossel, who was not involved in the new study.
gloss: Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
gloss: A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To ſhield thee from diſeaſes of the world, […]
gloss: To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
[…]mote he ſoft himſelfe appeaſe,
 And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth;
 His double burden did him ſore diſeaſe.
gloss: To infect with a disease.
pos: verb
Synonyms: affliction
ailment
coath
complaint
disease
disorder
egritude
ill health
illness
indisposition
sickness
trouble
malady
morbus
rot
Antonyms: haleness
health
healthiness
heartiness
Related words: symptom
pain
diseased
injury
defect
:Category:Diseases
:Category:Pathology
Derived words: Aleutian disease
Appalachian Mountain disease
Borna disease
Borna disease virus
Bourneville's disease
British disease
California disease
Central Mississippi River Valley disease
Deutschländer's disease
Dutch disease
Dutch elm disease
English disease
French disease
Guinea worm disease
Keshan disease
Mediterranean disease
Mediterranean-hemoglobin E disease
Newcastle disease
Newcastle Disease Virus
Lyme disease
Ockelbo disease
Ohio Valley disease
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