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CWD

CWD is the initialism of chronic wasting disease.

CWD is the initialism of current working directory.

Meaning of chronic wasting disease

Noun

chronic wasting disease (countable and uncountable, plural chronic wasting diseases)

  1. A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy found in deer, typified by chronic weight loss leading to death.
  2. Any of various chronic diseases that involve wasting in various animals, human or nonhuman.
    • a chronic wasting disease

Forms of CWD

pluralCWDs

Questions about CWD

What is CWD the initialism of?
CWD is the initialism of chronic wasting disease.

Words near CWD in the dictionary

  1. CW generator
  2. CW generators
  3. CWA
  4. CWB
  5. CWBs
  6. CWD
  7. CWDs
  8. CWG
  9. CWGs
  10. CWI
  11. cwierc

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CWD (page history and authors); chronic wasting disease (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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