Definition of disease
- n. - Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
- n. - An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its
organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital
functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady;
affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the
mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state,
etc.
- v. t. - To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to
distress.
- v. t. - To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with
disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the
participle diseased.