Definitions for smallpox

smallpox small·pox

Spelling: [smawl-poks]
IPA: /ˈsmɔlˌpɒks/

Smallpox is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in smallpox (allmopsx).

Definitions for smallpox

noun

  1. an acute, highly contagious, febrile disease, caused by the variola virus, and characterized by a pustular eruption that often leaves permanent pits or scars: eradicated worldwide by vaccination programs.

Origin of smallpox

First recorded in 1510-20; small + pox

Examples for smallpox

In the 18th century, German immigrants coming to Pennsylvania boarded ships plagued with typhus, dysentery, smallpox, and scurvy.

In many places, it was custom to place huts outside the villages for smallpox victims.

The only places the smallpox virus are known to exist today are storage facilities at the CDC and in Russia.

"Better her face should be pitted with smallpox than bring her to the pit of hell," said Csar.

Shoham adds without substantive evidence that “Syrian possession of the smallpox virus is likely.”

Just say smallpox to this town and it goes to pieces like a smashed egg.

For example, vaccinia immune globulin, or VIG, is stored and ready for the next person who becomes ill from smallpox vaccine.

John is worshiped pretty nigh, since his pluck with that smallpox man.

And I like her more than ever now, when she risked what she thought was smallpox to care for him.

And smallpox, even now, is a disease the name of which strikes panic to a community.

Word Value for smallpox
Scrable

19

Words with friends

23

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