Cholera
['kɒlərə] or ['kɑlərə]
Definition
(noun.) an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food.
Edited by Angelina--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.
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Definition
n. a highly infectious and deadly disease characterised by bilious vomiting and purging.—adj. Cholerā′ic.—British cholera an acute catarrhal affection of the mucous membrane of the stomach and small intestines.
Typist: Molly
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of this dread disease devastating the country, portends sickness of virulent type will rage and many disappointments will follow. To dream that you are attacked by it, denotes your own sickness.
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Examples
- It had fought gamely with floods and droughts, with cholera and panics, with desperadoes and with land thieves. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They were afraid of Egyptian plague and cholera. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He killed more people than the cholera, the gypsy said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There never was a community so prejudiced against the cholera as these Neapolitans are. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He is preparing a new ward in case of the cholera coming to us. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They fumigated us to guard themselves against the cholera, though we hailed from no infected port. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We had left the cholera far behind us all the time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- However, it generally does give me the cholera to take a bath. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Bacillus of Cholera identified by Koch, Bacillus of Diphtheria by Loeffler, and Bacillus of Lockjaw by Nicolaier. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Meanwhile the cholera had broken out, and men were dying every hour. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Do you think I show symptoms of yellow fever or cholera, that you are making post mortem arrangements with such zeal? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I lost him the first cholera season. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- By the last of August the cholera had so abated that it was deemed safe to start. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They smell inodorously--they do not wash--they dare not risk cholera. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Solomon