Diseased

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disease \Dis*ease"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Diseased}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Diseasing}.]
     1. To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
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              His double burden did him sore disease. --Spenser.
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     2. To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease
        or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in
        the participle diseased.
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              He was diseased in body and mind.     --Macaulay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diseased \Dis*eased"\, a.
     Afflicted with disease.
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           It is my own diseased imagination that torments me.
                                                    --W. Irving.
  
     Syn: See {Morbid}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  diseased
       adj : caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology;
             "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic
             tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" [syn: {morbid},
              {pathologic}, {pathological}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "diseased":
     abed, abnormal, afflicted, ailing, bad, cankered, contaminated,
     gangrened, gangrenous, ill, infected, infirm, morbid, mortified,
     out of sorts, pathological, peccant, poisoned, septic, sick,
     sphacelated, tainted, ulcerated, ulcerous, unhealthy, unsound,
     unwell, unwholesome