Both Uses of
epidemic
in
Atlas Shrugged
- There's never any warning given or any special reason, it's more like an epidemic, it hits the men suddenly and they go.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- No grapefruit juice?" he snapped; his doctor had prescribed grapefruit juice as protection against an epidemic of colds.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(epidemic) a widespread outbreak of a disease that is passed from one person (or other organism) to another
or more rarely: anything that spreads quickly -- especially something bad