{
    "term": "disease",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an illness affecting humans, animals or plants, often caused by infection",
            "labels": "(British English)(informal)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(British English)(British English)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(British English)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(British English)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**heart/lung/liver disease**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "In 19th-century England, **infectious diseases** were the principal cause of death."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**chronic diseases** such as obesity and diabetes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "health measures to prevent the **spread of disease**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Smoking increases the **risk of** heart **disease**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is not known what causes the disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He suffers from a rare blood disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sailors who ate no fresh food **contracted the disease**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's better to **prevent disease** by ensuring a clean water supply."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to treat/cure a disease"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to spread/transmit a disease"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Cattle had to be slaughtered after an outbreak of the disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "patients with **coronary heart disease**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "cardiovascular/pulmonary/respiratory disease"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Children are still dying in their millions from preventable diseases."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Humans can contract the disease, which is treatable with antibiotics."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the problem of controlling pests and disease with organic gardening methods"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Gene therapy was first pursued in an attempt to cure genetic diseases."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We face the challenge of finding new ways to treat diseases."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Quarantine is important for animal disease prevention."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Drugs can slow down the progression of the disease, but not cure it altogether."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has a serious lung disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He suffered from coronary heart disease"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She got a rare liver disease when she was only twenty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lupus is an autoimmune disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Such unhygienic practices spread disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was diagnosed with Lyme disease following a bite from a tick."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The disease has been eradicated from the world."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The disease has killed 500 people so far this year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The disease is transmitted by mosquitoes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government must take action to fight this deadly disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the difficulty of diagnosing and treating these diseases"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They want to stop the disease from spreading."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tobacco lowers the body's resistance to disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can't catch the disease just from physical contact."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a disease caused by a vitamin deficiency"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a disease of the digestive system"
                },
                {
                    "text": "childhood diseases such as mumps and chickenpox"
                },
                {
                    "text": "fears of a new killer disease"
                },
                {
                    "text": "fears of an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease"
                },
                {
                    "text": "new drugs which help to control the disease"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the number of people with this disease"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the overall incidence of disease in the world"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the risk of coronary heart disease"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the ticks that carry the disease"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The problem was finally diagnosed as heart disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is an extremely infectious disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "protection against sexually transmitted diseases"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Health problems"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["common", "obscure", "rare"],
                "… of disease": ["outbreak"],
                "verb + disease": ["have", "suffer from", "catch"],
                "disease + verb": ["spread", "affect somebody", "afflict somebody"],
                "preposition": ["with a/​the disease", "disease in", "disease of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a cure for a disease",
                    "the incidence of (a) disease",
                    "a patient with a disease"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "something that is very wrong with people’s attitudes, way of life or with society",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Greed is a disease of modern society."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈziːz/",
                "audio": "di/disease/disease__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈziːz/",
                "audio": "di/disease/disease__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘lack of ease; inconvenience’): from Old French desaise ‘lack of ease’, from des- (expressing reversal) + aise ‘ease’."
}