All 4 Uses of
epidemic
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- NO EPIDEMICS, I wrote.†
Chpt 3
- "Two of her children died in the epidemic," I said.†
Chpt 3 *
- Our mother, the recent agoraphobe, who kept us pumpkin-shelled indoors through all the months of rain and epidemic and Independence, has now turned on her protector: she eyes our house suspiciously, accuses it of being "cobwebby" and "strangling us with the heat."†
Chpt 3
- Epidemics sometimes devastated the village, but they always ended, not far from where they began.†
Chpt 5
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
or more rarely: anything that spreads quickly -- especially something bad