typhus

Noun

Meaning

A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

camp fever jail fever putrid fever black death character pestilence cheer typhoon brucellosis anthrax ague tying cheering bubonic plague tympanum
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Antonyms

health

Hypernyms

rickettsiosis rickettsial disease

Hyponyms

murine typhus endemic typhus rat typhus

Phrases with the word

Indian tick typhus Kenya tick typhus rickettsial typhus typhus outbreak form of typhus urban typhus

Examples

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Antoine de Saint Exupéry

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning. Chuck Palahniuk

We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases. Ferdinand Buisson

I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse. Charles Jules Henry Nicole

As the ship came through Port Phillip Heads in 1840, it was either typhus, spread - like the plague - by fleas, or typhoid fever, from contaminated water or food. Source: Internet

A symptom common to all forms of typhus is a fever which may reach 39 °C (102 °F). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

typhose typhotoxin typhous typhus epidemic typhus fever typhus fever caused by lice