Synonym: catching, contagious, infectious, prevalent, widespread. Similar words: academic, chemical, rapid, side by side, rapidly, depict, episode, decrepit. Meaning: [‚epɪ'demɪk] 
n. a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time. adj. (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously.
n. a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time. adj. (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously. 
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1. A great epidemic burst forth in that area.
2. A flu epidemic is sweeping through Moscow.
3. The Sanitary Board tries to stamp out the epidemic.
4. The authorities tried to localize the epidemic.
5. A typhus epidemic struck in the winter of 1919–20.Sentence dictionary
6. Foul drinking water was blamed for the epidemic.
7. Over 500 people died during last year's flu epidemic.
8. The epidemic was caused by a particularly virulent flu germ.
9. He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
10. Health officials have successfully confined the epidemic to the Tabatinga area.
11. Doctors are struggling to contain the epidemic.
12. She was carried off by the epidemic.
13. The AIDS epidemic is accelerating dramatically.
14. Doctors now fear a flu epidemic .
15. Staff shortages were worsened by the flu epidemic.
16. The flu outbreak has reached epidemic proportions .
17. The epidemic swept off most of the villagers.
18. A great cholera epidemic raged across Europe in 1831.
19. Crime and poverty are epidemic in the city.
20. Some people saw the epidemic as divine justice.
21. A flu epidemic raged through Europe.
22. A flu epidemic raged through the school for weeks.
23. The magnitude of the epidemic was frightening.
24. The epidemic was held in check by widespread vaccination.
25. Violent crime is reaching epidemic proportions in some cities.
26. Violence is reaching epidemic levels.
27. Marriage breakdown in the West has reached epidemic proportions.
28. Football hooliganism is now reaching epidemic proportions.
29. A flu epidemic is raging in/through local schools.
30. If present trends go/continue unchecked there will be a major epidemic of heart disease in the next five years.
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