dysentery
/ˈdɪs.ən.tə.ɹi/US/ˈdɪs.ənˌtɛɹ.i/
dysentery noun: a disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
Noun
dysentery (countable and uncountable, plural dysenteries)
- A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
- We ate, we drank, and we were merry / and we got typhoid and dysentery.1959, “In Old Mexico”, Tom Lehrer (music)
- diarrhea.
dysentery meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
dysentery in Hindi
- disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
- अतिसार atisār, अन्नगन्धि annagandhi, अन्नगंधि annagandhi, आमाशय āmāśay, ग्रहणी grahṇī, प्रवाहिका pravāhikā
dysentery in Tamil
- disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
- இரத்தக்கழிசல் irattakkaḻical, சீதபேதி cītapēti
dysentery in Urdu
- پیچش
dysentery in Bengali
- disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
- আমাশয় amaśoẏ
More languagesFewer languages
- dysentery in Telugu
- నీళ్ల విరేచనాలు nīḷla virēcanālu, గ్రహణి grahaṇi
- dysentery in Malayalam
- വയറുകടി vayaṟukaṭi
- dysentery in Kannada
- ಅತಿಸಾರ, ಆಮಶಂಕೆ, ರಕ್ತಭೇದಿ ರೋಗ
- dysentery in Punjabi
- ਡਾਇਨੇਟੇਰੀ ḍāineṭerī
- dysentery in Gujarati
- વસંત vasant
- dysentery in Sanskrit
- अतिसार atisāra, अन्नगन्धि annagandhi, आमाशय āmāśaya, ग्रहणी grahaṇī
- dysentery in Sinhala
- අතීසාරය atīsāraya
- dysentery in Pashto
- پېچ pech
- dysentery in Tagalog
- disenteriya, daragis, iti, pag-iiti
- dysentery in Arabic
- زُحَار zuḥār
- dysentery in Malay
- disenteri
- dysentery in Indonesian
- disentri
- dysentery in Persian
- دیسانتری
- dysentery in Thai
- โรคบิด rôok-bìt
- dysentery in Vietnamese
- kiết lị, lị, kiết
Examples of dysentery in a sentence
- The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.
- Patients with dysentery have mucosanguineous evacuations, with moderate colic pain preceding discharge, and rectal tenesmus.
- A variety of respiratory illnesses, yellow fever, dysentery, and above all, malaria still killed regularly.
Forms of dysentery
| plural | dysenteries |
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Origin of dysentery
From Middle English dissenterie, from Old French dissenterie, from Latin dysenteria, from Ancient Greek δυσεντερία (dusentería), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + ἔντερα (éntera, “bowels”).
Words formed from dysentery
Questions about dysentery
- What does dysentery mean?
- Dysentery means a disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
- What is dysentery in Hindi?
- Dysentery in Hindi is अतिसार (atisār), अन्नगन्धि (annagandhi), अन्नगंधि (annagandhi). See Dysentery meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is dysentery?
- Dysentery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dysentery?
- Dysentery is pronounced /ˈdɪs.ənˌtɛɹ.i/ (US).
- What is the plural of dysentery?
- The plural of dysentery is dysenteries.
Words near dysentery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dysentery (page history and authors); dysentery (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dysentery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); વસંત (Gujarati) (page history and authors); پېچ (Pashto) (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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