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epidemic

(,/E/p/I/'d/E/m/I/k )

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

Example:
An epidemic outbreak of influenza.

Antonym:
endemic, endemical

source: wordnet30
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.(adjective)

source: webster1913

a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time(noun.event)

source: wordnet30
An epidemic disease.(noun)

source: webster1913

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