Epidemic and Fever

Epidemic

Epidemic noun - A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time.

Show all Definitions

Fever and epidemic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fever" instead a noun "Epidemic".

Nearby Words: epidemical, epidemically

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

Usage example: before the days of modern medicine, when death remained a mystery, people said that someone died of a fever and left it at that

Show all Definitions

Epidemic and fever are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Epidemic" instead a noun "Fever".

Nearby Words: feverish, feverishly, fevered, feverous, fevering

real	real epidemic	real fever
severe	severe epidemic	severe fever
massive	massive epidemic	massive fever
serious	serious epidemic	serious fever
Other adjectives: huge, cold, pesky, tropical, famous, major, deadly, mysterious, unusual, incurable, strange, said, sudden, typhoid, viral.

A disease that reached epidemic levels in the 1920s, it started as a simple headache, fever, and sore throat.

Source: And I Must Scream
Saul, who dies during a flu epidemic, fills this role for Hetty Feather (although technically he was just a foster brother.) In Clover Moon, Megs becomes this when she dies from scarlet fever.

Source: Creator / Jacqueline Wilson
Two of the more commonly seen are "lover's pox" for herpes and "great pox" for syphilis, as well as "camp fever" for epidemic typhus.

Source: Video Game / Crusader Kings