Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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pestiferous | No | Yes | No | No |
epidemic | Yes | Yes | No | No |
pestiferous (noun) | epidemic (noun) |
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a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time |
pestiferous (adjective) | epidemic (adjective) |
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causing irritation or annoyance | (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously |
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | |
tending to corrupt or pervert | |
contaminated with infecting organisms |