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disease

Syllables: dis·easeUK/dɪˈziːz//dɪˈziz/

disease noun: an abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.

Noun

disease (countable and uncountable, plural diseases)

  1. An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
    • The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and their fruit withered.
    • The exposed workers had some kind of disease that left their skin splotchy and their faces withered.
  2. (figuratively) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
    • War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7
  3. A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
    • To ſhield thee from diſeaſes of the world, […]c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...

Verb

disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)

  1. (transitive) To infect with a disease.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
    • Whyll he yett ſpeake
      there cam won from the rulers off the ſynagogis houſſe
      which ſayde to hym: Thy doughter is deed
      diſeaſe not the maſter.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke viij:[49], folio lxxxix, recto
    • […]mote he ſoft himſelfe appeaſe,
      And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth;
      His double burden did him ſore diſeaſe.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 208

disease meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

disease in Hindi

an abnormal condition of the body causing discomfort or dysfunction
रोग rog, व्याधि vyādhi, बीमारी bīmārī, मरज़ maraz, मर्ज़ marz

disease in Tamil

an abnormal condition of the body causing discomfort or dysfunction
நோய் nōy, வியாதி viyāti

disease in Marathi

an abnormal condition of the body causing discomfort or dysfunction
रोग rog

disease in Urdu

an abnormal condition of the body causing discomfort or dysfunction
بِیماری bīmārī, مَرْض marz, مَرَض maraz, روگ rog
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disease in Bengali
অসুখ ośukh, রোগ rōg, বিমার bimar
disease in Telugu
వ్యాధి vyādhi, రోగము rōgamu, జబ్బు jabbu
disease in Malayalam
രോഗം rōgaṁ, സുഖക്കേട് sukhakkēṭŭ
disease in Kannada
ರೋಗ rōga
disease in Punjabi
ਰੋਗ rog, ਬਿਮਾਰੀ bimārī
disease in Gujarati
રોગ rog, મંદવાડ mandvāḍ
disease in Odia
ରୋଗ roga
disease in Sanskrit
रोग roga, गद gada, व्याधि vyādhi
disease in Sinhala
රෝග rōga
disease in Assamese
বেমাৰ bemar, ৰোগ rüg
disease in Nepali
रोग rog, बिमारी bimārī
disease in Pashto
ناروغي nāroǧí
disease in Tagalog
sakit, balatian
disease in Arabic
مَرَض maraḍ, دَاء dāʔ, سُقْم suqm
disease in Malay
penyakit
disease in Indonesian
penyakit
disease in Thai
โรค rôok
disease in Vietnamese
bệnh, căn bệnh
disease in Myanmar
ရောဂါ rau:ga

Examples of disease in a sentence

  • The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; […]November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10
  • The kind that have mottoes […] And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, →OL:
  • Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2...

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Synonyms of disease

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Antonyms

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Forms of disease

Noun
pluraldiseases
alternative formdis-ease
Verb
third-person singular presentdiseases
present participlediseasing
past participlediseased
pastdiseased

Plural of disease: diseases

Origin of disease

From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Displaced native Middle English adle, audle (“disease”) (from Old English ādl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), Middle English cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from Old English coþu (“disease”), see coath). By surface analysis, dis- + ease.

Words formed from disease

Phrases with disease

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Words that rhyme with disease

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Questions about disease

What does disease mean?
Disease means an abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
What is disease in Hindi?
Disease in Hindi is रोग (rog), व्याधि (vyādhi), बीमारी (bīmārī). See Disease meaning in Hindi.
How do you use disease in a sentence?
The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; […]
What part of speech is disease?
Disease can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce disease?
Disease is pronounced /dɪˈziːz/ (UK).
What is the plural of disease?
The plural of disease is diseases.

Words near disease in the dictionary

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  10. disease enhancements
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Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disease (page history and authors); મંદવાડ (Gujarati) (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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