dysentery
noun
dys·en·tery ˈdi-sᵊn-ˌter-ē 
-ˌte-rē
plural dysenteries
1
: a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection
2
: diarrhea
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Lamb, a marine ecologist at the University of California, Irvine, was investigating coral disease in Indonesia with her colleagues when they were afflicted by dysentery, a type of gastroenteritis. 
Sean Mowbray, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2022 Some 5,000 Cherokee people died during the journey, which later became known as the Trail of Tears, because of starvation, dysentery, typhus, whooping cough, cholera and other causes. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2022 But all the tweets about dysentery might have been bad luck. Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2022 Could this be dysentery or perhaps another ailment? Sharareh Drury, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022 The most pressing love interest involves Isaac ( Brandon Scott Jones ), a Revolutionary War officer who continues to hide his homosexuality 245 years after dying of dysentery. John Jurgensen, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022 After dysentery and a second mysterious illness took the lives of many on the Ridge and practically killed Claire (Caitriona Balfe), new trouble was in store, courtesy of one Miss Malva Christie (Jessica Reynolds). Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022 In the episode, a dysentery epidemic has spread across the Ridge. Sharareh Drury, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022 Anecdotal reports suggest that Bedouin groups consumed the stools of their camels as a remedy for bacterial dysentery. Jerome Groopman, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2019 See More
Sean Mowbray, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2022 Some 5,000 Cherokee people died during the journey, which later became known as the Trail of Tears, because of starvation, dysentery, typhus, whooping cough, cholera and other causes. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2022 But all the tweets about dysentery might have been bad luck. Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2022 Could this be dysentery or perhaps another ailment? Sharareh Drury, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022 The most pressing love interest involves Isaac ( Brandon Scott Jones ), a Revolutionary War officer who continues to hide his homosexuality 245 years after dying of dysentery. John Jurgensen, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022 After dysentery and a second mysterious illness took the lives of many on the Ridge and practically killed Claire (Caitriona Balfe), new trouble was in store, courtesy of one Miss Malva Christie (Jessica Reynolds). Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022 In the episode, a dysentery epidemic has spread across the Ridge. Sharareh Drury, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022 Anecdotal reports suggest that Bedouin groups consumed the stools of their camels as a remedy for bacterial dysentery. Jerome Groopman, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English dissenterie, borrowed from Latin dysenteria (Medieval Latin desintiria, dissenteria), borrowed from Greek dysentería, from dys- dys- + éntera (neuter plural) "intestines" + -ia -ia entry 1 — more at inter-
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Phrases Containing dysentery
Kids Definition
dysentery
noun
dys·en·tery ˈdi-sᵊn-ˌter-ē
: a disease marked especially by severe often bloody diarrhea
Medical Definition
dysentery
noun
dys·en·tery ˈdis-ᵊn-ˌter-ē
plural dysenteries
1
: a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection
2
: diarrhea
dysentery
noun
as in shigellosis
medical a serious disease that causes very frequent evacuation of fluid stools and a loss of blood Synonyms & Similar Words
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