dread disease

collocation in English

meaningsofdreadanddisease

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dread
noun
uk
/dred/us
/dred/
a strong feeling of fear ...
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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 ofdreadanddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is a different matter when one is offered a chance of a cure of adreaddisease.
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I sincerely hope that they will do just that and ensure that the public are properly informed about thatdreaddisease.
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It is adreaddiseaseof the body politic.
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This may also be one of the sources of thisdreaddisease.
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I want to know what his position is if he pays 100 contributions and then becomes a victim to thisdreaddisease.
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We can, moreover, take no real consolation from the fact that other countries are not immune from thisdreaddisease.
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Only in that way shall we eliminate thisdreaddiseasewithout having to run the economy at a deplorably low level of activity.
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There must be for thisdreaddiseasethe same degree of compulsion as for tuberculosis.
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At the end of 1935, 8,376 miners in this country were suffering from thisdreaddisease.
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Thisdreaddisease, myxomatosis has got its grip on the country.
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We in the mining areas have all our life had thedreaddiseaseof pneumoconiosis all around us.
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The effect of vaccination was to wipe out adreaddiseasewhich caused immense human suffering.
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Too long have we ignored what it means to contract thisdreaddiseaseand the effect it has on the man's life.
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It will take medical science quite a long time to find a cure for thisdreaddisease.
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Tin mining has now declined, but hundreds of men in my constituency suffer from thedreaddiseaseof silicosis.
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Obviously, the people who suffer from thisdreaddiseaseof pneumoconiosis cannot be regarded as mobile labour.
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If it had, it would have brought much quicker help to the sufferers of thisdreaddisease.
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An international footballer was struck down by thisdreaddiseaseand cut off in the full flower of his splendid young manhood.
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Houses were pointed out to me which were known as death houses, where healthy families had come in one by one only to be wiped out by thisdreaddisease.
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Often enough it is only when the man is at the point of death that he is found to have been suffering from thisdreaddiseasefor so many years.
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