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View synonyms for diseased

diseased

[ dih-zeezd ]

adjective

  1. having or affected with disease.


diseased

/ dɪˈziːzd /

adjective

  1. having or affected with disease


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Other Words From

  • nondis·eased adjective
  • undis·eased adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of diseased1

1425–75; late Middle English disesed; compare Anglo-French diseasé. See disease, -ed 2

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Example Sentences

But it was good news to the poor, the diseased, the downtrodden and scorned, and all the “little” people.

Step too far off the beaten path and you could be faced with diseased rodents and filthy insects.

More than two dozen lines of diseased mice have now been destroyed.

To its primitive, diseased brain I was practically invisible, an obstacle to be ignored, and, at best, avoided.

Before we necessarily had breasts, we were instructed to palpate the diseased, curvaceous effigy to feel for lumps.

If thine eye be sound the whole body is illumined; if the eye be diseased the whole body is in darkness.

So congress has excluded not only diseased, criminal, pauper and anarchist immigrants, but also contract and Chinese laborers.

The surgeons made their examination, and they discovered more diseased tissue, and a slowly spreading infection.

Dr. Legrand seemed to thoroughly understand this twisted and diseased conscience, and had a remedy to offer.

Nagkapilhuk ang mata nga masakitun, The diseased eye is gradually becoming sunken.

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