Definitions for AIDS

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AIDS AIDS

Spelling: [eydz]

IPA: /eɪdz/

Aids is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in AIDS (adis).

Definitions for AIDS

noun

1. a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and to neurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or blood products that enter the body's bloodstream, especially by sexual contact or contaminated hypodermic needles.
2. help or support; assistance.
3. a person or thing that aids or furnishes assistance; helper; auxiliary.
4. aids, Manège. Also called natural aids. the means by which a rider communicates with and controls a horse, as the hands, legs, voice, and shifts in weight. Also called artificial aids. the devices by means of which a rider increases control of a horse, as spurs, whip, and martingale.
5. aide-de-camp.
6. foreign aid.
7. a payment made by feudal vassals to their lord on special occasions.
8. English History. (after 1066) any of several revenues received by a king in the Middle Ages from his vassals and other subjects, limited by the Magna Charta to specified occasions.
9. the division of the United States International Development Cooperation Agency that coordinates the various foreign aid programs with U.S. foreign policy: established in 1961.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide support for or relief to; help:
2. to promote the progress or accomplishment of; facilitate.

verb (used without object)

1. to give help or assistance.

Origin of AIDS

1982; a(cquired) i(mmune) d(eficiency) s(yndrome)

Examples for AIDS

It AIDS recollection, and soothes and excites and animates the soul of man.

AIDS insanity:  When running for the US Senate in 1992, Huckabee called for a quarantine of people who had AIDS.

I consented that their commander with two AIDS might be admitted to our quarters.

The following year, he developed pneumocystis pneumonia—a serious infection associated with HIV and AIDS.

In the 1980s, your community allowed hundreds of thousands of us to die because you believed AIDS was divine punishment.

In 2007 he said he had discovered a cure for AIDS using natural herbs.

Profiting by these AIDS, an improved type of cable was designed.

It was instituted in 1983, at the height of the AIDS crisis.

Has England considered Napper Tandy and his AIDS as belligerents?

His two AIDS, the Saint and the Fiend, had a bad time of it.