Epidemic

[epɪ'demɪk] or [,ɛpɪ'dɛmɪk]

解释:

(noun.) a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time.

(adj.) (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; 'an epidemic outbreak of influenza' .

编辑:拉维恩--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Alt. of Epidemical

(n.) An epidemic disease.

(n.) Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.

欧内斯特整理

同义词及近义词：

a. General, prevailing, prevalent, pandemic.

编辑:维姬

解释:

adj. affecting a community at a certain time: general.—n. Epidem′ic a disease falling on great numbers in one place simultaneously or in succession.—adv. Epidem′ically.—n. Epidemiol′ogy the science of epidemics.

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