Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Diseased"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disease \Dis*ease"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Diseased}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Diseasing}.]
1. To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
[Obs.]
His double burden did him sore disease. --Spenser.
2. To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease
or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in
the participle diseased.
He was diseased in body and mind. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Diseased \Dis*eased"\, a.
Afflicted with disease.
It is my own diseased imagination that torments me.
--W. Irving.
Syn: See {Morbid}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
diseased
adj : caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology;
"diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic
tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" [syn: {morbid},
{pathologic}, {pathological}]
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