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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024dis•ease /dɪˈziz/USA pronunciation n. - Pathologyillness;
sickness: [uncountable]Disease may result from infection, deficient nutrition, or environmental factors.[countable]Flu is a contagious disease. - [countable] any harmful condition, as of society.
dis•eased, adj.: the product of a diseased mind. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024dis•ease (di zēz′),USA pronunciation n., v., -eased, -eas•ing. n. - Pathologya disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors;
illness;
sickness;
ailment. - Plant Diseasesany abnormal condition in a plant that interferes with its vital physiological processes, caused by pathogenic microorganisms, parasites, unfavorable environmental, genetic, or nutritional factors, etc.
- any harmful, depraved, or morbid condition, as of the mind or society:His fascination with executions is a disease.
- decomposition of a material under special circumstances:tin disease.
v.t. - Pathologyto affect with disease;
make ill.
- Anglo-French dese(a)se, disaise; see dis-1, ease
- Middle English disese 1300–50
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged morbidity, complaint, derangement, distemper, indisposition, infirmity, disorder, malady.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged health.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged cure.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: disease /dɪˈziːz/ n - any impairment of normal physiological function affecting all or part of an organism, esp a specific pathological change caused by infection, stress, etc, producing characteristic symptoms; illness or sickness in general
- a corresponding condition in plants
- any situation or condition likened to this
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French desaise; see dis-1, ease |