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/dɪˈziːz/ · noun
(medicine) 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.
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; […]
[…] diſeaſes deſperate growne, By deſperate appliance are releeued, Or not at all.
Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. 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.
Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
Use disease when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Disease means (medicine) 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..
Common synonyms include affliction, ailment, coath, complaint.
Possible antonyms include haleness, health, healthiness, heartiness.
The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and their fruit withered.
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