meaning of epidemic
1. Alt. of Epidemical
2. An epidemic disease.
3. Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
4. a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
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