Usually means: Impairment of health or condition.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word disease:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. disease: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. disease: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disease: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disease: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disease: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disease, disease: Wordnik
  7. disease: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disease: Wiktionary
  9. disease: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disease: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disease: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. disease: Dictionary.com
  13. disease: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. disease: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Disease (Beartooth album), Disease (G.G.F.H. album), Disease (disambiguation), Disease (song), Disease, The Disease: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Disease: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. disease: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. disease: Rhymezone
  19. disease: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. disease: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. disease: Free Dictionary
  22. disease: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. disease: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. disease: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. disease: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disease: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disease: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Disease: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  9. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  10. Disease: Glossary of Medical Education Terms
  11. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
  12. disease: Medical dictionary
  13. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  14. Disease: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. disease: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. disease: Anthropological Terms
  2. disease: Natural History Terms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Disease: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. disease: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See diseased as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
noun:  (figuratively) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
noun:  Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
verb:  (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
verb:  To infect with a disease.

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