pandemic

pandemic
adj
1.(all of diseases) epidemic, pestilential, pestilent, pestiferous, (of animals) Vet. Med. epizootic, (of plants) epiphytotic; infectious, contagious, communicable, catching, zymotic.
2. general, widespread, extensive, broad, wide, far-reaching; universal, global, world-wide; rife, rampant; wholesale, indiscriminate.
n
3. epidemic, zymosis, pestilence, plague, pandemia, scourge, (of animals) Pathol. epizootic, (of animals) epizooty, (of animals) murrain, (of plants) epiphytotic; bubonic plague, black plague, black death; white plague, tuberculosis, TB, consumption, phthisis, pulmonary phthisis.

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