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Definition

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

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

epidemic = a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease

I don't want no epidemic gittin' started in this town.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree

epidemic = a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease

No strange diseases, no food epidemics, no collapsing buildings.
Darren Shan -- A Vampire's Assistant

epidemics = a widespread outbreak of a disease

This idea of crime as an epidemic, it must be said, is a little strange.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point

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

Is the epidemic getting out of hand?
Albert Camus -- The Plague

epidemic = a widespread outbreak of a disease that is passed from one person (or other organism) to another

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

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