Diseased
adjective
Affected by disease or illness.
The doctor emphasized the importance of staying away from diseased animals.
Often appears as...
- diseased heart
- diseased tree
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Disapproving
adjective
Being physically or mentally damaged or unwell.
He was convinced that his mind was diseased.
Often appears as...
- diseased mind
- diseased lung
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Disapproving
adjective
Being in an abnormal or undesirable state or condition.
He described the city's economy as diseased and desperate for recovery.
Often appears as...
- diseased society
- diseased economy
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Disapproving
adjective
Affected by disease or illness.
The doctor emphasized the importance of staying away from diseased animals.
Often appears as...
- diseased heart
- diseased tree
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Being physically or mentally damaged or unwell.
He was convinced that his mind was diseased.
Often appears as...
- diseased mind
- diseased lung
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Being in an abnormal or undesirable state or condition.
He described the city's economy as diseased and desperate for recovery.
Often appears as...
- diseased society
- diseased economy
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/2Not Contagious
The word 'diseased' doesn't necessarily mean the condition can spread to others.
Avoid the diseased plants, although they can't infect the healthy ones.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Illness
'Diseased' often refers to a tangible illness in animals or people, visible or diagnosed by a doctor.
Farmers culled the diseased livestock to prevent any spread of the illness.
Pro Tip 1/2Not Contagious
The word 'diseased' doesn't necessarily mean the condition can spread to others.
Avoid the diseased plants, although they can't infect the healthy ones.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Illness
'Diseased' often refers to a tangible illness in animals or people, visible or diagnosed by a doctor.
Farmers culled the diseased livestock to prevent any spread of the illness.
Pro Tip 1/2Not Contagious
The word 'diseased' doesn't necessarily mean the condition can spread to others.
Avoid the diseased plants, although they can't infect the healthy ones.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Illness
'Diseased' often refers to a tangible illness in animals or people, visible or diagnosed by a doctor.
Farmers culled the diseased livestock to prevent any spread of the illness.
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The strange politics of...
I can tell you about some of the other things that have been shown sort of across the world to make people disgusted, things like feces, urine, blood, rotten flesh. These are the sorts of things that it makes sense for us to stay away from, because they might actually contaminate us. In fact, just having a diseased appearance
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The truth about bats -...
The perception that bats are often diseased may come from the fact that sick bats, who may show unusual behavior, emerge during the daytime, or be unable to fly, are more likely to be encountered by people. So a good way to protect yourself is to protect bats as well, keeping them healthy, protecting their habitats,
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COVID-19, Humans, and...
described often wildlife markets that are selling you know live animals and bush meat are almost cauldrons of contagion you have many different species together in the same place many of these animals are sick many of these animals are potentially diseased secreting blood other you know various
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Safari Live - Day 304 PIPE...
in any way suggesting these dogs need to be placed in quarantine it is the name of an open area on Juma so don't panic I'm not saying that they're diseased or anything like that it's just the name of an open area that's why they must go to quarantine it occurred to me as I said
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Wildfires 101 PIPE National...
They can help a forest by removing harmful insects or diseased plants and they can clear thick canopies to help sunshine reach seedlings on a forest floor. By being aware of the conditions necessary for wildfires to occur, they can be managed and prevented,
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Vultures: The...
while larger vultures can consume diseased meat up to 3 days old. Their acidic stomachs protect them from living animals their rancid vomit scares off most predators. These stomachs of steel are essential to removing pathogens like cholera,
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Cannibalism in the...
than if they were caring for a cub. Rather than waste nutritious meat, the males then eat the dead cubs. Meanwhile, cannibalism is less common in birds than in other groups, but certain species will eat diseased or dead hatchlings
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How I unlearned...
It broke my old sense of self, diseased value system and way of looking at others. My old stale modes of thinking were invited into the open to see if this is who I wanted to be in life. I was accompanied by skilled facilitators
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What it's really like to...
But the question is, am I really diseased if I just think differently? The main problem with living autistic in today's society is that the world just isn't built for us. There's so many ways that we can get overwhelmed.
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Elephant Mating,...
and any other kind of foreign invader. To patrolling white blood cells, these sperm could be diseased bacteria. And thousands are engulfed and destroyed.
Video examples
The strange politics of...
I can tell you about some of the other things that have been shown sort of across the world to make people disgusted, things like feces, urine, blood, rotten flesh. These are the sorts of things that it makes sense for us to stay away from, because they might actually contaminate us. In fact, just having a diseased appearance
Video examples
The truth about bats -...
The perception that bats are often diseased may come from the fact that sick bats, who may show unusual behavior, emerge during the daytime, or be unable to fly, are more likely to be encountered by people. So a good way to protect yourself is to protect bats as well, keeping them healthy, protecting their habitats,
Video examples
COVID-19, Humans, and...
described often wildlife markets that are selling you know live animals and bush meat are almost cauldrons of contagion you have many different species together in the same place many of these animals are sick many of these animals are potentially diseased secreting blood other you know various
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 304 PIPE...
in any way suggesting these dogs need to be placed in quarantine it is the name of an open area on Juma so don't panic I'm not saying that they're diseased or anything like that it's just the name of an open area that's why they must go to quarantine it occurred to me as I said
Video examples
Wildfires 101 PIPE National...
They can help a forest by removing harmful insects or diseased plants and they can clear thick canopies to help sunshine reach seedlings on a forest floor. By being aware of the conditions necessary for wildfires to occur, they can be managed and prevented,
Video examples
Vultures: The...
while larger vultures can consume diseased meat up to 3 days old. Their acidic stomachs protect them from living animals their rancid vomit scares off most predators. These stomachs of steel are essential to removing pathogens like cholera,
Video examples
Cannibalism in the...
than if they were caring for a cub. Rather than waste nutritious meat, the males then eat the dead cubs. Meanwhile, cannibalism is less common in birds than in other groups, but certain species will eat diseased or dead hatchlings
Video examples
How I unlearned...
It broke my old sense of self, diseased value system and way of looking at others. My old stale modes of thinking were invited into the open to see if this is who I wanted to be in life. I was accompanied by skilled facilitators
Video examples
What it's really like to...
But the question is, am I really diseased if I just think differently? The main problem with living autistic in today's society is that the world just isn't built for us. There's so many ways that we can get overwhelmed.
Video examples
Elephant Mating,...
and any other kind of foreign invader. To patrolling white blood cells, these sperm could be diseased bacteria. And thousands are engulfed and destroyed.
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Saint Basil
Greek Saint
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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John Podhoretz
American Writer
The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.
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Tony Fadell
American Inventor
We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.
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Eliot Engel
American Politician
Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.
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David Hackworth
American Soldier
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
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George Etherege
English Dramatist
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
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Joe Klein
American Journalist
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
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Harvey Cushing
American Scientist
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
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Sophocles
Greek Poet
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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Aeschylus
Greek Poet
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
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Saint Basil
Greek Saint
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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John Podhoretz
American Writer
The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.
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Tony Fadell
American Inventor
We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.
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Eliot Engel
American Politician
Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.
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David Hackworth
American Soldier
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
Quote examples
George Etherege
English Dramatist
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
Quote examples
Joe Klein
American Journalist
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
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Harvey Cushing
American Scientist
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
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Sophocles
Greek Poet
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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Aeschylus
Greek Poet
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
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