smallpox
smallpox
Definition
small·pox (-päks′)
noun
an acute, highly contagious disease caused by a poxvirus and characterized by prolonged fever, vomiting, and pustular eruptions that often leave pitted scars, or pockmarks, when healed
smallpox
Synonyms
smallpox
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- eradicate: Not until 6 years ago was smallpox eradicated from the world.
- catch: To Jenner's relief James did not catch smallpox.
- eliminate: And we did eliminate smallpox, which is a very evil affliction, almost entirely.
- prevent: If James lived Jenner would have found a way of preventing smallpox.
- contract: On a visit to England after the Restoration of her brother, Charles II, she had contracted smallpox and died there.
- develop: If James developed smallpox and died he would be a murderer.
Preposition: at
- age: Mary died, childless, of smallpox at the age of 32.
- time: The Tamils had suspected cholera and smallpox at the time.
Preposition: as
- child: Robert contracted smallpox as a child, surviving disfigured and scarred.
Adjective modifier
- deadly: He then infected him with the normally deadly smallpox.
- genetically-engineered: Now, it wants open the Pandora's Box of genetically-engineered smallpox.
Modifies a noun
- inoculation: Smallpox inoculation is now no longer required for any country.
- epidemic: In 1864 there was a smallpox epidemic in the district.
- vaccine: Worldwide stocks of smallpox vaccine will be measured at about 90 million - however, many of these were produced in the 1980s.
- eradication: The global smallpox eradication campaign ( 1960s ) 3.5.
- vaccination: I had a biopsy taken from the smallpox vaccination scar on my upper arm.
- outbreak: Their busiest year was 1902 during a major smallpox outbreak.
Noun used with modifier
- century: In the 18th century smallpox was a very common disease and was a major cause of death.
Preposition: in
- prison: Five of them, however, died of smallpox in prison awaiting trial.
Converse of subject
- blind: These achievements are especially remarkable for one who was blinded by smallpox at the age of one.
Browse dictionary entries near smallpox
- smallness
- smallmouth bass
- smallish
- smallholding
- smallholder
- smaller
- smallclothes
- small-town
- small-time
- small talk
- smallsword
- smalt
- smaltite
- smalto
- smaragd
- smaragdite
- smarm
- smarmy
- smart
- smart aleck
