Diseased
[dɪ'zizd]
Definition
(adj.) caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; 'diseased tonsils'; 'a morbid growth'; 'pathologic tissue'; 'pathological bodily processes' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Disease
(a.) Afflicted with disease.
Checker: Prudence
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Disordered, distempered, unsound, sickly, sick.
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Examples
- All the kindness which could be administered to a mind diseased I received from my mother and sister Fanny. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A diseased governor? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There is every reason to believe that the events he detailed, though distorted in the description by his diseased imagination, really happened. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The principle of a physician's conduct is its animating aim and spirit--the care for the diseased. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was a medicinal project upon his niece's understanding, which he must consider as at present diseased. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The man is in a diseased state, he thought, but there's a good deal of wear in him still. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What was this, but the action of diseased imaginations and childish credulity? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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