diseased
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3.7
- adjective
- /dɪˈziːzd/
- We want to actually look at a healthy eye, not a diseased eye, as being the standard.
- diseased bone
- diseased tissue
- diseased ear
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Watch on YouTubeMaybe they're vermin, they're diseased, they're disgusting, right?
- Maybe they're vermin, they're diseased, they're disgusting, right?
- Anything that's dead, diseased, or dying has to go.
- So we say such and such is healthy or such and such is diseased.
- Even if you threw out all of your your diseased crops, chances are you probably would still get it.
- Neurology is the clinical study of the brain, so the brain in its diseased state.
- So we might think about this as having a healthy constitution and a sickly or diseased constitution, he says.
- How do we nurture the seeds and saplings so as to spare them from that same diseased state?
- If somebody gets a diseased organ like a liver or a heart, right, they, they're, we today in modern medicine have organ transplants.
- Secondly, that it's not God, it's nature, that there is something diseased or sick about it.
- Because we get, I mean, we field so many questions and concerns about dying or diseased or, you know, trees that look sick, things like that, or even plants for that matter.
- So they're quote diseased and very painful.
- They just thought, what a diseased young man, what a troubled mind.
- You are with a fat, floppy body that's diseased, that has low energy, that has no strength, that has no ability of endurance.
- It has been linked to cancer or and radiation over time causes cell irregularity and so it doesn't cause it, it causes your cells to become diseased.
Examples
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Compared with healthy ones, diseased GAGs turn out to be shorter and have less charge.
Academic text (2002) -
The incident that The Hot Zone described resulted from the unintentional importation of diseased primates into this country.
Academic text (1998) -
Well, when this joint gets diseased, movement becomes much more difficult.
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Well, not this one, because it's a diseased cat.
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Every night he invited strangers, diseased people, to the dinner table.
Fiction book (2001) -
In times past, hands stretched out from the Keep to help the poor and the diseased.
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Diseased and starving, they rarely show themselves above ground.
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His humor was rich, his temper was wild, and he was diseased and corrupt.
Fiction book (1990) -
When cancer metastasizes, diseased cells travel through the body and invade healthy organs.
Academic text (2008) -
The veterinarian examined the diseased rabbit and diagnosed it with a severe infection.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not well because of illness
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7.7
Relating to or caused by illness
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5.9
Suffering from pain, illness, or trouble
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7.5
Relating to disease or its study
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7.2
Related to or caused by disease
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How Sick
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Etymology
The word diseased comes from dis- 'not' and ease 'comfort', meaning 'not at ease' in health. That's why diseased means 'affected by disease' or 'sick' and shows signs of illness.