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English to English adjective
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(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously |  | Example: an epidemic outbreak of influenza
source: wordnet30
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Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic. | | source: webster1913 noun
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a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time | | source: wordnet30
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An epidemic disease. | | source: webster1913
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