horrible disease
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhorribleanddisease
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horrible
adjective
uk/ˈhɒr.ə.bəl/us/ˈhɔːr.ə.bəl/
very unpleasant ...
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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 ofhorribleanddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We are, as it were, watching the spread of ahorriblediseaseto which no one has yet found an anti-dote.
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Let us be very careful about border controls in relation to importing again thishorriblediseaseparticularly to countries that are now rabies-free.
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I hope colleagues will take the opportunity to sign it and support raising awareness of thishorribledisease.
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That shows how widespread thishorriblediseasemay be.
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It was an event which stemmedhorriblediseasesuch as we had following the 1914–18 war, which most have forgotten.
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We know about the incidence of lung cancer—the worst and mosthorribledisease.
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We want to keep it out: in so far as there is no known cure for it, it is ahorriblediseaseto have.
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Rabies is such ahorriblediseasethat we must take such fears seriously.
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Fatigue is also associated with thathorribledisease.
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It is ahorriblediseasefor human beings to get.
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It certainly brings a larger measure of hope to those engaged in these occupations who are subject to thishorribledisease.
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It is spreading ahorriblediseasefor which there is no cure.
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Divorce is ahorriblediseasethat is catching, and it is spreading far too widely.
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All this tends to bear out the fact that the spread of thishorriblediseasebetween men and women is increasing.
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I do not believe that we should be well advised to take any risk with thishorribledisease.
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It is ahorribledisease, and it is, unfortunately, an extremely inoperable one.
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He stated that every factory in the country was infected by thehorriblediseaseof which he complains.
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Further, it is a veryhorriblediseaseindeed in its serious form.
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It seemed to me that quarantine took advantage of our island status, it was a sensible bulwark against ahorriblediseaseand it appeared to work.
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If these constant surprises are not due to ignorance, are they due to what someone described the other day as thathorriblediseaseof wishful thinking?
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