STD
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3.7
- noun
- /ˌɛsˌtiːˈdi/
- NSFW
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enfermedad de transmisión sexual
- So now let's look at the STD infection.
- STD prevention
- sexually transmitted STD
- transmit a STD
They don't even check like STD results man.
- They don't even check like STD results man.
- And he's like, OK, well, you got to go get a full STD test and AIDS test.
- Anyway, Jameson, you know the number one place that STD's are spread nowadays?
- Because she cheated on my fiance not once but twice and gave him STD's for her efforts.
- Today we'll be discussing men's sexual function changes during aging, STD's, porn, all of it.
- It only takes one time to catch an STD.
- Do you want to see it with sea geek And on that note too, get checked for STD's, herpes sponsored.
- I had a doctor, neurologist told me that she thought I had STD's.
- Because the way I am, I probably rather get the STD than COVID.
- No one wants your old couch covered in STD's.
Examples
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Males had fewer episodes of STDs despite having reported greater numbers of partners.
Academic text (1997) -
An untreated STD can cause this issue.
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Listen, I just contracted an STD the night before.
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You were probably too worried about catching an STD to even have sex.
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And I have no STDs, I promise you.
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No, ma'am, an STD is the worst thing that you can have.
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I used a condom, but I'm really scared that I have an STD, Doc.
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The reported number of STD episodes differed by gender, with females having more.
Academic text (1997) -
All participants were provided with a list of STDs and asked to indicate which diseases they had previously experienced.
Academic text (1997) -
Many people do not realize that an untreated STD can lead to serious health issues.
Synonyms
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2.7
An illness you can get from someone when you have sex
12
9.9
An infection you catch from sexual contact
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3.7
A disease spread by sexual contact
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7.4
A contagious infection spread by sexual contact
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4.6
An illness that spreads through sexual contact, like syphilis or gonorrhea
1
5.8
A disease people get through sex
An infection you catch from another person during sex
An old name for syphilis, a disease you get by sex
An infection caught during sex, especially syphilis
Surface Forms
Morphology
STD = S + T + D
This is an initialism (S‑T‑D for sexually transmitted disease); the letters themselves do not provide transparent morphological cues to the meaning for learners.
Etymology
STD here is simply short for sexually transmitted disease, which literally means a disease 'passed by sexual contact'. So an STD is a health problem you can catch through sexual activity.