Definitions for epidemic

epidemic ep·i·dem·ic

Spelling: [ep-i-dem-ik]
IPA: /ˌɛp ɪˈdɛm ɪk/

Epidemic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in epidemic (cdeeiimp).

Definitions for epidemic

noun

  1. a temporary prevalence of a disease.
  2. a rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something:

adjective

  1. Also, epidemical. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
  2. extremely prevalent; widespread.

Origin of epidemic

1595-1605; obsolete epidem(y) (Late Latin epidēmia Greek epidēmía staying in one place, among the people, equivalent to epi- epi- + dêm(os) people of a district + -ia

Examples for epidemic

With a mortality rate of 70 percent, the more cases that arise, the deadlier this epidemic becomes.

Only fallin' in love is kind of epidemic down at the boardin' house, I guess.

In mid-summer, as the epidemic swept through the region, schools closed one by one.

Their expenses were enlarged, as were those of the other families, by an epidemic of smallpox.

Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic it set loose on the world?

Then, too, when our artist friend was with us we were in the grasp of an epidemic of cholera.

Rape and sexual assault may be less of an epidemic than other studies suggest.

While public interest in Ebola continues to dwindle, the epidemic itself continues to soar.

Not a Moon man, on the other hand, had survived the epidemic.

The antibody could be synthesized and one could attack any epidemic with confidence.

Word Value for epidemic
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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