Crossword-Solution: EPIDEMIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Epidemic | a. | Alt. of Epidemical |
| Epidemic | n. | An epidemic disease. |
| Epidemic | n. | Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EPIDEMIC (5)
But a certain grim incident, which caused the epidemic, troubled her even more than the death of her friends.
After a while, the mi- crobe mutates itself into a benign chemical compound that no longer can copy itself and the influenza epidemic is over.
Well, I said, and to require the help of medicine, not when a wound has to be cured, or on occasion of an epidemic, but just because, by indolence and a habit of life such as we have been describing, men fill themselves with waters and winds, as if their bodies were a marsh, compelling the ingenious sons of Asclepius to find more names for diseases, such as flatulence and catarrh; is not this, too, a disgrace? Yes, he said, they do certainly give very strange and newfangled names to diseases.
But suppose a doctor inquiring into an epidemic asks, ‘Who is staying in the house?’ then the lady will remember the butler, the parlourmaid, and the rest.
Well, don't you know, when there's an epidemic, they rush 'em to the cemetery the minute the breath's out.
Quotes with EPIDEMIC (3)
Delegation of kindness is an epidemic of success
[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.
At the fourth, the fractal (or viral, or radiant) stage of value, there is no point of reference at all, and value radiates in all directions, occupying all interstices, without reference to anything whatsoever, by virtue of pure contiguity. At the fractal stage there is no longer any equivalence, whether natural or general. Properly speaking there is now no law of value, merely a sort of epidemic of value, a sort of general metastasis of value, a haphazard proliferation and …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 38 times in crossword archives (1951–2021).