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"Epidemic" Definition

noun

A rapid spread, growth, or development: an unemployment epidemic.
An outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and widely.
An outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many individuals at the same time an outbreak of epidemic disease.
An outbreak or product of sudden rapid spread, growth, or development .

adjective

Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time: an epidemic outbreak of influenza.
Widely prevalent: epidemic discontent.
Affecting or tending to affect a large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time .
Excessively .
Characterized by very widespread growth or extent of, relating to, or constituting an epidemic .

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