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#655. Disease. -- N. disease

• illness

• sickness

• ailing

• "all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]

• morbidity

• morbosity|;

• infirmity

• ailment

• indisposition

• complaint

• disorder

• malady

• distemper

• visitation

• attack

• seizure

• stroke

• fit

• delicacy

• loss of health

• invalidation

• cachexia[Med]

• atrophy

• indigestion

• dyspepsia

• decay

• 65

• decline

• consumption

• palsy

• paralysis

• prostration

• taint

• pollution

• infection

• sepsis

• infestation;

• epidemic

• pandemic

• endemic

• epizootic

• murrain

• plague

• pestilence

• pox

• sore

• ulcer

• abscess

• fester

• boil

• pimple

• wen

• carbuncle

• gathering

• peccant humor

• issue

• rot

• canker

• cold sore

• fever sore

• cancer

• carcinoma

• leukemia

• neoplastic disease

• malignancy

• tumor

• caries

• mortification

• corruption

• gangrene

• leprosy

• eruption

• rash

• breaking out

• fever

• temperature

• inflammation

• ague

• angina pectoris[Lat]

• appendicitis

• spasmodic cholera

• biliary calculus

• kidney stone

• black death

• bubonic

• plague

• pneumonic plague

• blood

• poisoning

• bloody flux

• brash

• dengue fever

• malarial fever

• Q-fever

• heart attack

• cardiac arrest

• cardiomyopathy[Med]

• hardening of the arteries

• arteriosclerosis

• atherosclerosis

• bronchocele[Med]

• canker rash

• cardialgia[Med]

• carditis[Med]

• endocarditis[Med]

• cholera

• asphyxia

• chlorosis

• chorea

• erysipelas;

• exanthema

• gallstone

• goiter

• gonorrhea

• green sickness;

• grip

• grippe

• influenza

• flu

• hay fever

• heartburn

• heaves

• rupture

• hernia

• hemorrhoids

• piles

• herpes

• itch

• king's evil

• lockjaw

• measles

• polio

• necrosis

• pertussis

• pneumonia

• pyrosis[Med]

• quinsy

• ringworm

• rubeola

• St. Vitus's dance

• scabies

• scarlatina

• scarlet fever

• scrofula

• seasickness

• tetanus

• tonsillitis

• tracheocele[Med]

• trachoma

• trismus[Med]

• varicella[Med]

• varicosis[Med]

• variola[Med]

• water qualm

• whooping cough;

• yellow fever

• yellow jack

• fatal disease

• dangerous illness

• galloping

• consumption

• churchyard cough

• general breaking up

• break up of the system

• [Disease of mind] idiocy

• insanity

• martyr to disease

• cripple

• "the halt the lame and the blind";

• valetudinarian

• invalid

• patient

• case

• sickroom

• sick-

• chamber

• [Science of disease] pathology

• etiology

• [Veterinary] anthrax

• bighead

• blackleg

• cattle

• plague

• mange

• scrapie

• milk sickness

• heartworm

• feline

• leukemia

• roundworms

• quarter-evil

• quarter-ill

• rinderpest

• [disease-causing agents] virus

• bacterium

• bacteria

• [types of viruses] DNA virus

• RNA virus

• [RNA viruses] rhinovirus

• rhabdovirus

• picornavirus

• [DNA viruses] herpesvirus

• cytomegalovirus

• CMV

• human

• immunodefficiency virus

• HIV

• V. be ill

• ail

• suffer

• labor under

• be affected with

• complain of

• have

• droop

• flag

• languish

• halt

• sicken

• peak

• pine

• gasp

• keep one's bed

• feign sickness

• lay by

• lay up

• take a disease

• catch a disease

• catch an

• infection

• break out

• Adj. diseased

• ailing

• ill

• ill of

• taken ill

• seized with;

• indisposed

• unwell

• sick

• squeamish

• poorly

• seedy

• affected with illness

• afflicted with illness

• laid up

• confined

• bedridden

• invalided

• in

• hospital

• on the sick list

• out of health

• out of sorts

• under the weather

• [U. S.]

• unsound

• unhealthy

• sickly

• morbid

• infirm

• chlorotic[Med]

• flagging

• lame

• crippled

• halting

• morbid

• tainted

• vitiated

• peccant

• contaminated

• poisoned

• mangy

• leprous

• cankered

• rotten

• rotten to the core

• rotten

• at the core

• withered

• palsied

• paralytic

• dyspeptic

• pneumonic

• pulmonic[Med]

• rachitic

• varicose

• touched in the wind

• broken-winded

• spavined

• gasping

• hors de combat

• weakly

• weakened

• decrepit

• decayed

• 65

• incurable

• in declining health

• cranky

• in a bad

• way

• in danger

• prostrate

• moribund

• morbific

• epidemic

• endemic

#656. Salubrity. -- N. salubrity

• healthiness

• fine air

• fine climate

• [Preservation of health] hygiene

• valetudinarian

• valetudinarianism;

• sanitarian

• sanitarium

• sanitorium

• V. be salubrious

• agree with

• assimilate

• Adj. salubrious

• salutary

• wholesome

• healthy

• healthful

• sanitary

• prophYlactic

• benign

• bracing

• tonic

• invigorating

• good for

• nutritious

• hygienic

• innocuous

• innocent

• harmless

• uninjurious

• uninfectious

• sanative

• restorative

• useful

#657. Insalubrity. -- N. insalubrity

• unhealthiness

• plague spot

• malaria

• death in the pot

• contagion

• toxicity

• Adj. insalubrious

• unhealthy

• unwholesome

• noxious

• noisome;

• mephitic

• septic

• deleterious

• pestilent

• pestiferous

• pestilential

• virulent

• venomous

• envenomed

• poisonous

• toxic

• teratogenic

• narcotic

• contagious

• infectious

• catching

• taking

• epidemic

• epizootic

• indigestible

• ungenial

• uncongenial

• (disagreeing) 24

• deadly

#658. Improvement. -- N. improvement

• amelioration

• melioration;

• betterment

• mend

• amendment

• emendation

• mending

• advancement;

• advance

• ascent

• promotion

• preferment;

• elevation

• increase

• cultivation

• civilization

• culture

• march of intellect

• race-culture

• eugenics

• reform

• reformation

• revision

• radical reform

• second thoughts

• correction

• limoe labor[Lat]

• refinement

• elaboration

• purification

• oxidation

• repair

• recovery

• revise

• new edition

• reformer

• radical

• V. improve

• be better

• become better

• get better

• mend

• amend

• advance

• ascend

• increase

• fructify

• ripen

• mature

• pick up

• come about

• rally

• take a favorable turn

• turn over

• a new leaf

• turn the corner

• raise one's head

• sow one's wild oats

• recover

• be better

• be improved by

• turn to right account

• turn to

• good account

• turn to best account

• profit by

• reap the benefit of

• make

• good use of

• make capital out of

• place to good account

• render better

• improve

• mend

• amend

• better

• ameliorate

• meliorate;

• correct

• improve upon

• refine upon

• rectify

• enrich

• mellow

• elaborate

• fatten

• promote

• cultivate

• advance

• forward

• enhance

• bring forward

• bring

• on

• foster

• invigorate

• touch up

• rub up

• brush up

• furbish up

• bolster up

• vamp up

• brighten

• up

• warm up

• polish

• cook

• make the most of

• set off to advantage

• prune;

• repair

• put in order

• review

• revise

• make corrections

• make improvements

• doctor

• (remedy) 6

• purify,

• relieve

• refresh

• infuse new blood into

• recruit

• reform

• remodel

• reorganize

• new model

• view in a new light

• think better of

• appeal from Philip drunk to

• Philip sober

• palliate

• mitigate

• lessen an evil

• Adj. improving

• progressive

• improved

• better

• better

• off

• better for

• all the better for

• better advised

• reformatory

• reparatory

• remedial

• corrigible

• improvable

• adv. on consideration

• on reconsideration

• on second thoughts

• on

• better advice

• ad melius inquirendum[Lat]

• phr. urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit[Lat]

#659. Deterioration. -- N. deterioration

• debasement

• wane

• ebb;

• recession

• retrogradation

• decrease

• degeneracy

• degeneration

• degenerateness

• degradation

• depravation

• depravement

• devolution

• depravity

• demoralization

• retrogression;

• masochism

• impairment

• inquination|

• injury

• damage

• loss

• detriment

• delaceration|

• outrage

• havoc

• inroad

• ravage

• perversion

• prostitution

• vitiation

• discoloration

• oxidation

• pollution

• defoedation|

• poisoning

• venenation|

• leaven

• contamination

• canker

• corruption

• adulteration

• alloy

• decline

• declension

• declination

• decadence

• falling

• off

• decrepitude

• decay

• dilapidation

• ravages of time

• wear and tear

• corrosion

• erosion

• moldiness

• rottenness

• moth and rust

• dry rot

• blight

• atrophy

• collapse

• disorganization

• delabrement

• aphid

• Aphis

• plant louse

• wreck

• mere wreck

• honeycomb

• magni nominis umbra[Lat]

• jade

• plug

• skate [U. S.]

• tacky [U. S.]

• V. be worse

• be deteriorated

• become worse

• become deteriorated

• have seen better days

• deteriorate

• degenerate

• fall off

• wane

• (decrease)

• ebb

• retrograde

• droop

• go down

• 30

• go downhill

• go from bad to worse

• go farther and fare worse

• jump out

• of the frying pan into the fire

• run to seed

• go to seed

• run to waste swale|

• sweal|

• lapse

• be the

• worse for

• sphacelate

• break down

• spring a leak

• crack

• start

• shrivel

• fade

• go off

• wither

• molder

• rot

• rankle

• decay

• go bad

• go to decay

• fall into decay

• "fall into the sear

• and yellow leaf"

• rust

• crumble

• shake

• totter

• totter to its fall

• perish

• die

• [Render less good] deteriorate

• weaken

• put back

• set back;

• taint

• infect

• contaminate

• poison

• envenom

• canker

• corrupt

• exulcerate|

• pollute

• vitiate

• inquinate|

• debase

• embase|;

• denaturalize

• denature

• leaven

• deflower

• debauch

• defile

• deprave

• degrade

• ulcerate

• stain

• discolor

• alloy

• adulterate

• sophisticate

• tamper with

• prejudice

• pervert

• prostitute

• demoralize

• brutalize

• render vicious

• embitter

• acerbate

• exacerbate

• aggravate

• injure

• impair

• damage

• harm

• hurt

• shend|

• scath|

• scathe

• spoil

• mar

• despoil

• dilapidate

• waste

• overrun

• ravage

• pillage

• wound

• stab

• pierce

• maim

• lame

• surbate|

• cripple

• hamstring

• hit between wind and water

• scotch

• mangle

• mutilate

• disfigure

• blemish

• deface

• warp

• blight

• rot

• corrode

• erode

• wear away

• wear out

• gnaw

• gnaw at the

• root of

• sap

• mine

• undermine

• shake

• sap the foundations of

• break up;

• disorganize

• dismantle

• dismast

• destroy

• damnify

• do one's worst

• knock down

• deal a

• blow to

• play havoc with

• play sad havoc with

• play the mischief with

• play

• the deuce with

• play the very devil with

• play havoc among

• play sad havoc

• among

• play the mischief among

• play the deuce among

• play the very devil

• among

• decimate

• Adj. unimproved

• deteriorated

• altered

• altered for the worse

• injured

• sprung

• withering

• spoiling

• on the wane

• on the decline

• degenerate

• worse

• the worse for

• all the worse for

• out of repair

• out of tune;

• imperfect

• the worse for wear

• battered

• weathered

• weather-beaten;

• stale

• passe

• shaken

• dilapidated

• frayed

• faded

• wilted

• shabby

• secondhand

• threadbare

• worn

• worn to a thread

• worn to a shadow

• worn to

• the stump

• worn to rags

• reduced

• reduced to a skeleton

• far gone

• tacky

• [U. S.*]

• decayed

• moth-eaten

• worm-eaten

• mildewed

• rusty

• moldy

• spotted

• seedy

• time-worn

• moss-grown

• discolored

• effete

• wasted

• crumbling

• moldering

• rotten

• cankered

• blighted

• tainted

• depraved

• (vicious) 9

• decrepit

• broke

• busted

• broken

• out of

• commission

• out of action

• broken down

• done

• done for

• done up

• worn out

• used up

• finished

• beyond saving

• fit for the dust hole

• fit for the wastepaper basket

• past work

• at a low ebb

• in a bad way

• on one's last legs

• undermined

• deciduous;

• nodding to its fall

• tottering

• past cure

• fatigued

• retrograde

• (retrogressive)

• deleterious

• Phr. out of the frying pan into the fire

• agrescit medendo[Latin];

• "what a falling off was there!" [Hamlet]