All 3 Uses
epidemic
in
Listening for Lions
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- It seemed unfair to me that everyone else was fighting the epidemic and I could do nothing.†
Book 1 *
- Mr. Pritchard said, "I have cabled the mission board that your parents have succumbed to the influenza epidemic."†
Book 1
- I told of the time there was a cholera epidemic and of the illnesses that came from bad water.†
Book 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)