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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61. She died in the influenza epidemic of 1919.
62. The country is battling an AIDS epidemic.
63. There has been a recent epidemic of car thefts.
64. Thus, the crime epidemic now gripping the nation.
65. The results of this inactivity epidemic are predictable.
66. This raging epidemic of corporate crime is nothing new.
67. The epidemic is spreading at an alarming rate.
68. Alcohol abuse has reached epidemic proportions in this country.
69. Green fields and hams: Slightly tweaked hamstrings are becoming epidemic at Dodgertown.
70. Read in studio Health officials are warning that so-called rave parties could lead to a drug epidemic.
71. The epidemic is having a disastrous effect on the tourist industry.
72. Polio, apparently passed on from a human epidemic in the region,(http://sentencedict.com/epidemic.html) had already reduced their numbers.
73. Transmission has always been the burning issue for scientists interested in studying this epidemic.
74. Police believe the epidemic, as academic experts refer to it, is far worse than the official statistics suggest.
75. Shoplifting has reached epidemic proportions and this gave rise to a lively discussion.
76. The epidemic is dynamic, unstable and continuing to spread rapidly.
77. He said: We have solid information that the use of drugs to enhance performance is really an epidemic.
78. Yet this epidemic of self-inflicted slaughter seems to pass us by with little front page news in the national Press.
79. Captain Mayhew of the Jeroboam refuses to come aboard because of an epidemic on his ship.
80. The direction of Baker's career was determined by the cholera epidemic of 1831-2.
81. The joy of the end to the war was marred, unfortunately, by a worldwide influenza epidemic.
82. Mackowiak theorizes that this evolved to quickly kill badly infected organisms to prevent epidemic infection within species.
83. No other methods have ever been found anywhere in any country during the entire course of the AIDS epidemic.
84. Patient M17 was the only individual who was colonised by the epidemic strain at the time of first referral to the unit.
85. At the beginning of an epidemic only a few individuals are infected, so the disease spreads fairly slowly.
86. With such a start in life, an enterprising virus could hardly fail to become epidemic.
87. To place a monetary value on the prevention of an epidemic is largely conjectural.
88. If, say, measles had shown such an increase, we should now be talking about a major epidemic.
89. Reports are coming into the newsroom of a cholera epidemic in a nearby town.
90. The highest level of epidemic influenza ever recorded by the unit was 918.1 per 100,000 in the winter epidemic 20 years ago.
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