Attack
Illness
Illness noun - An abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning.
Usage example: suffered from a mysterious illness that left her weak and tired all the time
Attack is a synonym for illness in sickness topic. Sometimes you can use "Attack" instead a noun "Illness", if it concerns topics such as disease, fit.
Nearby Word: ill
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- In 20XXII, Keine is revealed to have died of an illness consisting of "pneumonia and lumps in her lungs", Aya dies of heart-attack caused by illness and stress, and Koishi started to become this.
Source: Ill Girl / Fan Fiction - Lockdown: Following Sovereign's attack, the Citadel is completely quarantined due to a "mysterious illness" supposedly spread by the Keepers.
Source: Fanfic / Cycles Upon Cycles -
In Game Of Touhou, during the attack on Gengetsu's city, Tojiko, who was dying from her zombie illness, finally managed to be reunited with a dying Futo as well.
Source: Together in Death
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