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WHITE PLAGUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
Synonyms:
drug addiction; white plague
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("white plague" is a kind of...):
addiction; dependance; dependence; dependency; habituation (being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs))
Domain category:
narcotic (a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "white plague"):
alcohol addiction; alcoholism; drunkenness; inebriation (habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms)
cocaine addiction (an addiction to cocaine)
heroin addiction (an addiction to heroin)
caffein addiction (an addiction to caffein)
nicotine addiction (an addiction to nicotine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Synonyms:
consumption; phthisis; pulmonary tuberculosis; wasting disease; white plague
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("white plague" is a kind of...):
T.B.; TB; tuberculosis (infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages))
