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[syn: diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Diseased \Dis*eased"\, a.
Afflicted with disease.
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It is my own diseased imagination that torments me.
--W. Irving.
Syn: See Morbid.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disease \Dis*ease"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diseased; p. pr. &
vb. n. Diseasing.]
1. To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
[Obs.]
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His double burden did him sore disease. --Spenser.
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2. To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease
or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in
the participle diseased.
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He was diseased in body and mind. --Macaulay.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
diseased
adj 1: caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or
pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth";
"pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"
[syn: diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "diseased":
abed, abnormal, afflicted, ailing, bad, cankered, contaminated,
gangrened, gangrenous, ill, infected, infirm, morbid, mortified,
out of sorts, pathological, peccant, poisoned, septic, sick,
sphacelated, tainted, ulcerated, ulcerous, unhealthy, unsound,
unwell, unwholesome