epidemic 的 2 个定义
- Also ep·i·dem·i·cal . affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.Compare pandemic.
- extremely prevalent; widespread.
- a temporary prevalence of a disease.
- a rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something: an epidemic of riots.
epidemic 近义词
widespread
epidemic 的近义词 13 个
- contagious
- endemic
- infectious
- catching
- general
- pandemic
- sweeping
- communicable
- prevailing
- prevalent
- rampant
- rife
- wide-ranging
epidemic 的反义词 1 个
widespread disease
更多epidemic例句
- America’s coronavirus epidemic hit blue states particularly hard at first, especially in the Northeast.
- Parents care about safety, and they feel that bullying has become an epidemic in our schools.
- We didn’t take a stand on ending gun violence and the gun violence epidemic because of the impact that it has on perpetuating racism in this country.
- The coronavirus pandemic has shown anyone paying attention that epidemics do not end at borders.
- We have high rates of heart disease and diabetes and these factors make an already dangerous epidemic particularly lethal to folks like me, and to my community.
- While public interest in Ebola continues to dwindle, the epidemic itself continues to soar.
- With a mortality rate of 70 percent, the more cases that arise, the deadlier this epidemic becomes.
- Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic it set loose on the world?
- In mid-summer, as the epidemic swept through the region, schools closed one by one.
- Rape and sexual assault may be less of an epidemic than other studies suggest.
- Added to this, an epidemic of cholera had just broken out in the town, and the childrens maid nearly fell a victim to the disease.
- Hardly had the boys mother left St. Petersburg, when an epidemic of scarlet fever broke out in the school.
- At his instigation a persecution of unprecedented virulence raged like an epidemic throughout the empire.
- In Richmond alone, approximately eight hundred people succumbed during this epidemic period.
- For example, a dreadful influenza epidemic occurred followed by a severe fuel shortage due to a railroad strike.