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Pestilential

Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.

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Epidemic 84% connected

Alt. of Epidemical

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Epidemic 84% connected

Alt. of Epidemical

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Pestilence 74% connected

Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.

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Pestilence 74% connected

Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.

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Pestiferous 92% connected

Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pestilent 92% connected

Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.

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Bar noun · 78% connection

the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"

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Epidemiology noun · 78% connection

the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease

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Life expectancy noun · 78% connection

an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities

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Prevention noun · 78% connection

the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"

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Ability noun · 78% connection

possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; "danger heightened his power…

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Black death unknown · 78% connection

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

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Bolar adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.

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Brutism noun · 78% connection

The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

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Canine adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.

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Character noun · 78% connection

The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed by natur…

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Cheesy adjective · 78% connection

Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

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Concrete adjective · 78% connection

Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an…

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Decimation noun · 78% connection

The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war.

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Essence noun · 78% connection

The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are…

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Evil adjective · 78% connection

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless…

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form noun · 78% connection

That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to b…

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Heat noun · 78% connection

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as man…

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Heroism noun · 78% connection

The qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities.

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Heteroousian adjective · 78% connection

Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.

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Human adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human v…

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Impest verb · 78% connection

To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague.

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Infect verb · 78% connection

To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communicat…

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