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adjective
- 1. suffering from disease: "diseased trees"
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adjective. uk / dɪˈziːzd / us / dɪˈziːzd / Add to word list. suffering from a disease: a diseased lung / kidney. diseased brain tissue. Farmers were dumping or burying the diseased carcasses. The bush looked badly diseased, with black marks on all the leaves. a diseased mind / imagination. a diseased society. Synonym. pathological.
The meaning of DISEASED is affected with or as if with a disease : lacking health or soundness : sickly. How to use diseased in a sentence.
a condition of a person, animal, or plant in which its body or structure is harmed because an organ or part is unable to work as it usually does; an illness: [ C ] Mumps is an infectious disease. [ U ] He suffers from heart disease. [ U ] Hundreds of thousands of trees died from Dutch elm disease.
1. : a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning and is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms : sickness, malady. infectious diseases. a rare genetic disease. heart disease.
Diseased definition: having or affected with disease. . See examples of DISEASED used in a sentence.
a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
Definition of 'diseased' diseased. (dɪziːzd ) 1. adjective B2. Something that is diseased is affected by a disease. The arteries are diseased and a transplant is the only hope. Clear away dead or diseased plants. Synonyms: unhealthy, sick, infected, rotten [informal] More Synonyms of diseased. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
