disease

A condition that makes a person, animal, or plant unhealthy.

• This disease affects the lungs.
• Some insects spread disease.
• The trees died from a serious disease.

Similar words: illness, sickness

Opposites: health

Common phrases: heart disease, spread disease, disease prevention, chronic disease

To make someone feel uncomfortable, worried, or annoyed.

• These thoughts disease my mind.
• His constant complaints diseased her peace.
• The memory continued to disease him.

Similar words: trouble, annoy, irritate

Opposites: soothe

Common phrases: disease someone’s mind, disease the heart

To infect someone or something and make them ill.

• The infection diseased the cattle.
• They feared the water would disease the villagers.
• The fungus had diseased several plants.

Similar words: infect

Common phrases: disease the body, disease the cattle