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epidemic

/ep-i-dem-ik/US // ˌɛp ɪˈdɛm ɪk //UK // (ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk) //

疫情,流行病,流行病学,流行性疾病

Related Words

infectious感染性,感染性的,传染性,传染性的endemic流行的,流行,流行性,流行病contagious传染性,传染性的,传染性强,传染contagion传染,传染性,传染病,传播scourge祸患,祸害,灾祸,灾害rash皮疹,疹子,红疹子,红疹wave挥手,挥,挥动,挥舞spread扩散,传播,蔓延,铺开plague霍乱,瘟疫,困扰,大灾outbreak爆发,疫情爆发,爆发了,疫情pest害虫,害人精,虫害,害人者sweeping扫荡,扫除,扫地,清扫catching捕捉,捕捉到的,捕获,抓紧时间pandemic大流行,大流行病,大流行性,大流行的general一般,总体,普通,一般情况pestilence瘟疫,传染病,流行病,疾病growth增长,增长情况,增长的,增长的问题upsurge飙升,热潮,高潮,激增communicable传染性,传染性的,传染病,可传染prevailing盛行的,盛行于世的,盛行,盛行于世

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a temporary prevalence of a disease.
    • : a rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something: an epidemic of riots.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.widespread
Synonyms
contagious传染性,传染性的,传染性强,传染endemic流行的,流行,流行性,流行病infectious感染性,感染性的,传染性,传染性的catching捕捉,捕捉到的,捕获,抓紧时间general一般,总体,普通,一般情况pandemic大流行,大流行病,大流行性,大流行的sweeping扫荡,扫除,扫地,清扫communicable传染性,传染性的,传染病,可传染prevailing盛行的,盛行于世的,盛行,盛行于世prevalent盛行的,盛行,流行的,普遍的rampant猖獗的,猖獗,猖狂的,猖獗的人rife来福,利福,来福酒wide-ranging范围广泛的,内容广泛的,广泛的,范围广泛
nounwidespread disease
Synonyms
contagion传染,传染性,传染病,传播outbreak爆发,疫情爆发,爆发了,疫情pest害虫,害人精,虫害,害人者plague霍乱,瘟疫,困扰,大灾rash皮疹,疹子,红疹子,红疹scourge祸患,祸害,灾祸,灾害spread扩散,传播,蔓延,铺开wave挥手,挥,挥动,挥舞endemic流行的,流行,流行性,流行病growth增长,增长情况,增长的,增长的问题pestilence瘟疫,传染病,流行病,疾病upsurge飙升,热潮,高潮,激增what's going around

Examples

  • 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.

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