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PESTILENTIAL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

Example:

plaguey fevers

Synonyms:

pestiferous; pestilent; pestilential; plaguey

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

epidemic ((especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously)

Derivation:

pestilence (any epidemic disease with a high death rate)

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