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Seuche — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • blight noun A plant disease, often caused by fungus, that causes rapid browning and death of leaves or stems.
  • disease noun An illness affecting the body or mind, caused by infection, malfunction, or other harmful factors.
  • epidemic noun An outbreak of a disease that spreads quickly and affects many people in a population at once.
  • pest noun An insect or animal that damages crops, spreads disease, or is otherwise harmful.
  • pestilence noun A deadly, widespread disease; a plague.
  • plague noun A deadly, fast-spreading disease, especially historically the bubonic plague.

Senses

Seuche is used for these senses in English:

  • blight Something that impedes development or growth, or spoils any other aspect of life.
  • disease (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
  • epidemic A widespread disease that affects many humans in a population.
  • pest (now, _, rare) A pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.
  • pestilence Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
  • plague (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.

blight — full definition

  1. noun A plant disease, often caused by fungus, that causes rapid browning and death of leaves or stems.
  2. noun Something that damages or holds back growth, development, or quality of life.
  3. verb To damage or spoil the growth or development of something.

disease — full definition

  1. noun An illness affecting the body or mind, caused by infection, malfunction, or other harmful factors.
  2. noun A harmful or corrupting pattern in a system, society, or way of thinking.

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