Epidemic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EPIDEMIC in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a rapid spread of a disease
• a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time
• a sudden, widespread occurrence of an undesirable phenomenon
• widespread occurrence of a disease
• An epidemic disease.
• Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
• a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
ADJECTIVE:
• occurring in many places
• of the nature of an epidemic
• Alt. of Epidemical
• (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously
• (esp of a disease) affecting many people in an area

Words related to EPIDEMIC

epidemically22 epidemics16

Words that contain EPIDEMIC

epidemics16 epidemical17 epidemicity21 epidemically22 epidemicities20 interepidemic20

How to use EPIDEMIC in a sentence

• But after the epidemic had passed by, she herself was taken ill, and died suddenly in a hospital ward, surrounded by the very patients whom she had nursed back to health.
• If you see anything in your newspapers about these plague figures, remember that they are not like an epidemic here.
• There must be an epidemic in the air now for women of forty to play with boys, as they get it even in her class.
• Tyler escaped the epidemic but he had to endure the boredom of weeks of quarantine.
• An epidemic of internal troubles, it is true, kept Sir Godfrey in the depths of London society, but to make up for his absence Mrs.
• Within are thousands and millions of human beings, of all ages and classes, by one epidemic disease bending to the grave.
• Within the preceding five years, while the whites had been diminished by an epidemic, the negroes had increased by about 1,100.
• An epidemic means a disease that affects a large number of people at the same time and is widely spread.
• The drainage in Havana is of the worst possible description, and in times of epidemic no attempt is made to prevent the spread of disease.
• The father had escaped infection, and the violence of the epidemic was beginning to wear itself out, when the daughter caught the disease.
• There is no horse sickness yet in the epidemic form.
• But a medical staff sufficient for two army corps was altogether insufficient to supply the needs of an army of 200,000 and fight an epidemic of terrible severity.
• Naturally I asked him what kind of an epidemic it was.
• There had been a desolating cholera epidemic, and Mason was the only representative of any foreign country who stayed at his post and saw it through.
• It is also beneficial in this way, but when given less often, for epidemic dysentery.
• I had occasion to visit one of the northern provinces, where the epidemic was especially severe, in an effort to calm the panic-stricken populace.
• It swept through the spinster-ranks of the congregation like an epidemic.
• Here I was attacked with the epidemic fever of Africa, and experienced the medical assistance and friendship I have previously noticed.
• Of course the doctors had the usual debate whether the fever were infectious or epidemic, but it made little difference.
• One of the most striking instances of this mode of extension was in the epidemic of cholera in Hamburg in 1892.
• Not again while the present order continues will it be possible for the dreaded epidemic to get the mastery of a great German city.

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