pandemic
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Definitions ofpandemic
- A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.
Synonyms: pandemia
- Of a disease: epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population; also, of or pertaining to a disease of this nature.
Synonyms: pandemial, pandemical, panepidemic
Example: "World War I might have continued indefinitely if not for a pandemic outbreak of influenza."
- (usually derogatory) General, widespread.
Synonyms: common, ubiquitous, universal
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