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• scourge — index catastrophe, disaster, discipline (punishment), discipline (punish), disease, harm (noun) …   Law dictionary

• disease — I noun affliction, ailment, attack, bodily deviation from health, bout of sickness, breakdown, chronic disability, collapse, condition, contagion, defect, deterioration, disability, discomfort, disorder, distemper, epidemic, handicap, ill health …   Law dictionary

• disease — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Condition of ill health Nouns 1. disease, illness, sickness, ailment, ailing; morbidity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; functional disorder. 2. condition, affliction,… …   English dictionary for students

• scourge — 1. noun 1) historical he was beaten with a scourge Syn: whip, horsewhip, lash, strap, birch, switch, bullwhip, rawhide; historical cat o nine tails 2) inflation was the scourge of the mid 1970s Syn: affliction, ban …   Thesaurus of popular words

• scourge — scourger, n. scourgingly, adv. /skerrj/, n., v., scourged, scourging. n. 1. a whip or lash, esp. for the infliction of punishment or torture. 2. a person or thing that applies or administers punishment or severe criticism. 3. a cause of… …   Universalium

• scourge — 1 noun (C) 1 something that causes a lot of harm or suffering (+ of): The scourge of apartheid has finally ended. 2 a whip used to punish people in former times 2 verb (T) 1 to cause a lot of harm or suffering to a place or group of people: a… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• disease — Synonyms and related words: affection, affliction, ailment, bane, blight, bug, bugbear, burden, calamity, cancer, complaint, condition, contagion, contaminate, crushing burden, curse, death, debility, decrepitude, destruction, disability,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• scourge — Synonyms and related words: adversity, afflict, affliction, ambulatory plague, bane, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, black death, black plague, blacksnake, blister, bubonic plague, buffet, bugbear, bullwhack, bullwhip, burden,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• A Scourge of Screamers — Infobox Book | name = A Scourge of Screamers title orig = translator = image caption = author = Daniel F. Galouye illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Science fiction novel publisher = Bantam… …   Wikipedia

• Health and Disease — ▪ 2009 Introduction Food and Drug Safety.       In 2008 the contamination of infant formula and related dairy products with melamine in China led to widespread health problems in children, including urinary problems and possible renal tube… …   Universalium

• ear disease — ▪ human Introduction       any of the diseases or disorders that affect the human ear and hearing.       Impaired hearing (deafness) is, with rare exception, the result of disease or abnormality of the outer, middle, or inner ear. Serious… …   Universalium