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What does the word disease mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive

To cause disease in; disorder.

Part of speech: noun

Disturbed or abnormal action in the living organism; sickness; illness.

Usage examples for disease

But is the disease so ridiculous in him as it is made? – Epicoene Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
But step by step the disease grew worse. – Catherine Booth A Sketch by Colonel Mildred Duff
What is her disease? – Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life by Hesther Lynch Piozzi