noun [U,C]
1 an illness affecting humans, animals or plants, often caused by infection:
heart / liver / kidney disease * health measures to prevent the spread of disease * an infectious / contagious disease (= one that can be passed to sb very easily) * It is not known what causes the disease. * protection against sexually transmitted diseases * He suffers from a rare blood disease. * A fatty diet increases the risk of heart disease. * the problem of controlling pests and disease with organic gardening methods
2 [C] (formal) something that is very wrong with people's attitudes, way of life or with society:
Greed is a disease of modern society.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for disease is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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