diseased

[dih-zeezd]

dis·eased

[dih-zeezd]
adjective
having or affected with disease.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English disesed; compare Anglo-French diseasé. See disease, -ed2

non·dis·eased, adjective
un·dis·eased, adjective

deceased, diseased.

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dis·ease

[dih-zeez] noun, verb, dis·eased, dis·eas·ing.
noun
1.
a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
2.
any abnormal condition in a plant that interferes with its vital physiological processes, caused by pathogenic microorganisms, parasites, unfavorable environmental, genetic, or nutritional factors, etc.
3.
any harmful, depraved, or morbid condition, as of the mind or society: His fascination with executions is a disease.
4.
decomposition of a material under special circumstances: tin disease.
verb (used with object)
5.
to affect with disease; make ill.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English disese < Anglo-French dese(a)se, disaise; see dis-1, ease

dis·eas·ed·ly, adverb
dis·eas·ed·ness, noun


1. morbidity, complaint, derangement, distemper, indisposition, infirmity, disorder, malady.


1. health. 5. cure.

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diseased (dɪˈziːzd)
 
adj
having or affected with disease

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diseased dis·eased (dĭ-zēzd')
adj.

  1. Affected with disease.

  2. Unsound or disordered.

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