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English adjective: epidemic | |||
| 1. | epidemic (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously | ||
| Samples | An epidemic outbreak of influenza. | ||
| Similar | epiphytotic, epizootic, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguey | ||
| Domain category | medical specialty, medicine | ||
| Antonyms | ecdemic, endemic, endemical | ||
English noun: epidemic | |||
| 1. | epidemic (event) a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | eruption, irruption, outbreak | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | pandemic | ||
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