grave disease

collocation in English

meaningsofgraveanddisease

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grave
noun[C]
uk
/ɡreɪv/us
/ɡreɪv/
a place in the ground where a dead person ...
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disease
noun
uk
/dɪˈziːz/us
/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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(Definition ofgraveanddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What shall we do to arrest thisgravedisease?
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There is agravediseasein the body politic and it is useless merely to treat symptoms.
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My continuing lingering fear is that, without detailed examination,gravediseasemasquerading as back pain or something like that may occasionally be missed.
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It is agravedisease, which unhappily produces its own misery, depression and despondency.
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Well, alas, this distinguished professor did develop a verygravedisease.
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For example, if there is a drug for use in agravedisease, such as cancer of the uterus, you want an expert in that field.
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I do hope that people who are suffering from this verygravediseaseand their relatives will not allow false hopes to be built up in this matter.
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We are suffering from agravedisease.
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But it does not follow if you take in 70,000,000 bacteria you will therefore be likely to contract grave diseases by that means.
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Further, there is dirty milk sold which need not necessarily contain the bacilli of grave diseases, but which is undoubtedly detrimental to health.
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Both are similar in their consequences and are grave diseases.
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