diseasing
Making someone sick
Diseasing is the present participle of disease used as a verb, meaning to infect or afflict with illness.
The verb form is rare and somewhat archaic, appearing mostly in older texts or deliberately formal contexts: Poverty and filth were diseasing the population.
More common today is the adjective diseased, describing something afflicted by disease.
Sustained experience of distress
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- plagueDeadly epidemic disease
- scourgeCause of mass suffering
- blightPlant disease causing decay
curse · malady · tribulation · misery · anguish · distress · woe · adversity
Global disease outbreak
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- plagueDeadly epidemic disease
- endemicNative to one area
- influenzaAcute viral respiratory infection
cholera · smallpox · typhoid · tuberculosis · malaria · measles · contagion · pestilence
Pathogen invasion causing illness
- illnessState of poor health
- sicknessBodily disorder or disease
- disorderAbsence of organization
- conditionState or stipulation
malady · infirmity · dysfunction · impairment · symptom · diagnosis · pathogen · inflammation
suffering
Sustained experience of distress
blight · curse · malady · tribulation · misery · anguish · distress · woe · adversity · calamity
pandemic
Global disease outbreak
influenza · cholera · smallpox · typhoid · tuberculosis · malaria · measles · contagion · pestilence · scourge
infection
Pathogen invasion causing illness
condition · malady · infirmity · dysfunction · impairment · symptom · diagnosis · pathogen · inflammation · deterioration
transmission
Sending of information
- spreadTo distribute widely
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
contamination · vector · carrier · pathogen · virus · bacteria · microbe · germ · host · incubation
diseasingcuring
Restoring health or preserving
healing · treating · remedying · restoring · recovering
diseasingimmunizing
Inducing disease resistance
vaccinating · protecting · strengthening · fortifying · cleansing