Ailment and Plague

Ailment

Ailment noun - An abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning.

Usage example: people who have AIDS are more susceptible to other ailments as well

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Plague and ailment are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plague" instead a noun "Ailment".

Nearby Words: ailing, ailed

Plague noun - A widespread disease resulting in a high rate of death.

Usage example: the Black Death was a plague that killed about one third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages

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Ailment and plague are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ailment" instead a noun "Plague".

Nearby Words: plagued, plaguing

similar	similar ailment	similar plague
common	common ailment	common plague
specific	specific ailment	specific plague
original	original ailment	original plague
Other adjectives: horrible, major, general, fatal, mysterious, unknown, strange, said, magical, debilitating.

Mystical Plague: The Astral Plague, a confusing and mysterious ailment that wiped out the entire Ytarran civilization.

Source: Web Video / Tales from My D&D Campaign
In Clive Barker's The Plague, having ANY children is declared illegal worldwide, as a mysterious ailment has caused all children under the age of nine (unborn babies included) to fall into a coma.

Source: Population Control

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