Definitions for dengue

dengue den·gue

Spelling: [deng-gey, -gee]
IPA: /ˈdɛŋ geɪ, -gi/

Dengue is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in dengue (deegnu).

Definitions for dengue

noun

  1. an infectious, eruptive fever of warm climates, usually epidemic, characterized especially by severe pains in the joints and muscles.

Origin of dengue

1820-30, Americanism; American Spanish

Examples for dengue

Hearn did not fall a victim, but underwent a severe attack of "dengue" fever.

More than one dengue infection appears to increase the risk of DHF.

Vosshall compares mosquito research, and research on malaria and dengue fever that they carry, to research on HIV/AIDS.

Now, dengue has this short-coming: that people do not die of it.

dengue becomes epidemic at times, especially in the Southern States.

Eight of the students had to be evacuated out of the country when they contracted diseases such as dengue fever and malaria.

DHF is a potentially fatal complication of dengue that was first recognized about 60 years ago.

Another mosquito-borne infection, dengue is found primarily in urban and rural tropical and subtropical regions.

It was simple malaria, known in the Southwest as dengue fever.

I had another attack of dengue, but have got nearly over it.

Word Value for dengue
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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