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a widespread outbreak of a disease that is passed from one person (or other organism) to anotheror more rarely: anything that spreads quickly — especially something bad
- Doctors are concerned about an epidemic outbreak of influenza this year.
epidemic = a widespread outbreak of a disease that is passed from one person to another
- They're not going to permit another great epidemic of it.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- I don't want no epidemic gittin' started in this town.Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
- No strange diseases, no food epidemics, no collapsing buildings.Darren Shan -- A Vampire's Assistant
- This idea of crime as an epidemic, it must be said, is a little strange.Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
- Is the epidemic getting out of hand?Albert Camus -- The Plague
- Millions of our children, our most precious natural resource, are being victimized by a tragic and unconscionable epidemic of child abuse and neglect.Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It
- It's an epidemic of seeing.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- 'Well, well .... something of the epidemic ....'Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
- After all they were not battling an epidemic.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- We have a contagious epidemic.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The kind that quickens during a hunt, not an epidemic.Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
- Like an epidemic spreading swiftly from land to land, the metamorphosis infected the entire human race.Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
- Now AIDS, on the other hand, has been an epidemic that does occupy the writers of its time.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- Once we get an epidemic of lice, or crabs, or scabies, it is near impossible to get rid of 'em.Jack Gantos -- Hole in My Life
- Teen pregnancy is such an epidemic in our area that I felt good about sharing my story with people outside of my high school.Gaby Rodriguez -- The Pregnancy Project
- That's what had happend to Father: they'd had an epidemic of cholera on the prison ship he'd been on.James Lincoln Collier -- My Brother Sam is Dead
- Many had died in a cholera epidemic and they'd been buried in haste in wooden boxes and the boxes were rotting and falling open.Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
- One such sick and dying wolf appeared in Churchill during the 1946 epidemic.Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
- Without additional funding for public health measures, outbreaks and epidemics of new diseases were virtually inevitable.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
epidemic = a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
epidemic = a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
epidemics = a widespread outbreak of a disease
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
or more rarely: anything that spreads quickly — especially something bad
epidemic = a widespread outbreak of a disease that is passed from one person (or other organism) to another
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