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.
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91. The national disgrace is that we parents do nothing to stop this epidemic.
92. In addition, there had been several successive bad harvests, and a phylloxera epidemic which devastated the vineyards.
93. Recognizing that the epidemic was due to this deadly disease, he kept careful notes of every case.
94. This is a damaging epidemic which remains politically invisible but socially evident.
95. And yet the country faces an AIDS epidemic every bit as catastrophic as the one that is ravaging its neighbours.sentence dictionary
96. Often the first separation was literal, through hospital isolation and quarantine, practices firmly established during the 1916 polio epidemic.
97. Unfortunately, the bride-to-be died in a smallpox epidemic, which plunged the city both into mourning and quarantine.
98. If the usual winter epidemic of flu causes overcrowding, arrangements have been made to treat patients in privately run hospitals.
99. The brave heroes returned to an epidemic of influenza which all but carried off those who had survived a living hell.
100. Ah,[sentencedict.com] that was the time we had a spring flu epidemic.
101. Chlorine was first used to treat water after the Maidstone epidemic of 1897-8 when hop-pickers contaminated spring water.
102. Sadly the Archduchess died during a smallpox epidemic before the wedding took place.
103. Furthermore, the predicted heterosexual epidemic in Britain has not yet happened.
104. Recent topics include career guidance, parenthood and the AIDS epidemic.
105. Patients M24, M25, and M26 were inpatients when the epidemic strain was first cultured from their sputum.
106. His interest in polio is said to have originated during the polio epidemic in New York City in 1931.
107. And he has boosted federal spending to combat the AIDS epidemic.
108. As already mentioned, Paredes y Arrillaga died in the summer of 1849, and Mariano Otero succumbed to the cholera epidemic.
109. Downsizing continues apace with radical change thanks to galloping new technology, while the current merger epidemic leads to unpredictable job loss.
110. Doctors warn that a flu epidemic may be on the way.
111. By fall the disease, first thought a minor illness, was an epidemic.
112. But to have such an epidemic you need more than an easily transmissible bug.
113. By A.D. 54-5, militant activity had again assumed epidemic proportions.
114. The leadership woke up last year after scientists warned that potential economic losses from an epidemic would erase gains from economic reforms.
115. The result: a temporary reduction of flies, but no halt in the polio epidemic.
116. By definition, an epidemic is any disease that is increasing in size within a population.
117. In the late summer, they thought the epidemic was over.
118. The current tuberculosis epidemic, which threatens the entire population with antibiotic-resistant strains, is the result of one such foolish cutback.
119. The assertion that this has reached epidemic proportions can not be challenged.
120. By 1946 the worst epidemic of poliomyelitis since the 1916 outbreak gripped the United States.
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