Understanding the meaning of epidemic

epidemic

/,ɛpɪ'dɛmɪk/

noun
a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
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type of:
outbreak irruption eruption
adjective
(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously
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"an epidemic outbreak of influenza"

Similar:

pestilential plaguey epiphytotic epizootic pandemic pestiferous pestilent

Opposite:

ecdemic endemic

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