to diagnosed with

178 3.4

A doctor finds someone has an illness after checking them

phrasal verb
/ˈdaɪəɡnoʊzd wɪð/

: ser diagnosticado de

So I in July, last summer, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
diagnosed with cancer
diagnosed with a disease
diagnosed with diabetes

And my father was diagnosed with colon cancer two years ago.

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Examples

I was 15 years old when I was diagnosed with Asperger's.

Glee: The Concert Movie (2011)
Ten months ago, she was diagnosed with dementia, though it is still in the early stages.

Academic text (2011)
Your, your mother was also diagnosed with brain cancer prior to that.
I told you all when my wife was diagnosed with Ms.
Six weeks later, my uncle gets diagnosed with cancer.

Burbiszki (2020)
And I stopped smoking when I got diagnosed with cancer like that.
And I was diagnosed with clinical depression.
- Well, five years ago, my dad was diagnosed with heart disease and was goin' through heart failure.

The Mothman Legacy (2020)
Elena's mom, Sandra, was diagnosed with cancer last year.
She was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder after several tests.

Antonyms

healthy

800 1.0

In good body and mind condition without sickness or injury

cured

43 2.7

No longer sick after treatment

How Certain

confirmed

4 4.2

to diagnosed with

178 3.4

suspected

146 3.7

undiagnosable

Specialized

1 9.1

Surface Forms

diagnosed with infinitive

diagnosed with past

diagnosed with past participle

diagnosing with present participle

diagnoses with third person singular

Morphology

diagnose + with

The meaning 'identified as having a particular disease' is directly and compositionally derived from 'diagnose' (identify an illness) plus the preposition 'with' marking the condition. This pattern (diagnosed with X) is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common way to express having a condition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would understand it.

Etymology

Diagnosed with comes from the image of a doctor checking tests and saying what illness a patient 'has'. The word diagnosed is the doctor naming the illness and with links the person to that illness, so the phrase means being told you 'have' a disease.