diseased

[ dih-zeezd ]

adjective

1. having or affected with disease.

diseased

/ dɪˈziːzd /

adjective

1. having or affected with disease

Other Words From

• nondis·eased adjective
• undis·eased adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of diseased¹

1425–75; late Middle English disesed; compare Anglo-French diseasé. See disease, -ed ²

Example Sentences

The race to rescue Florida’s diseased coralsOne day the staff sent scientists out to stand at some of the signs and answer questions visitors might have about climate change.

From Washington Post

For conditions like arthritis and wound and postoperative pain, however, these drugs need to target only the diseased or injured areas of the body to provide pain relief.

From Popular-Science

“This advance opens up the possibility of comparing networks of healthy and diseased brains, to identify the network changes that are thought to cause mental illnesses and other neurological disorders,” Shapson-Coe said.

From Singularity Hub 

Trenches separate diseased coral tissue from healthy tissue.

From Science News For Students

They also are investigating whether tiny capsules of the material can deliver treatments to diseased organs.

From Science News For Students

But it was good news to the poor, the diseased, the downtrodden and scorned, and all the “little” people.

From The Daily Beast

Step too far off the beaten path and you could be faced with diseased rodents and filthy insects.

From The Daily Beast

More than two dozen lines of diseased mice have now been destroyed.

From The Daily Beast

To its primitive, diseased brain I was practically invisible, an obstacle to be ignored, and, at best, avoided.

From The Daily Beast

Before we necessarily had breasts, we were instructed to palpate the diseased, curvaceous effigy to feel for lumps.

From The Daily Beast

If thine eye be sound the whole body is illumined; if the eye be diseased the whole body is in darkness.

From Project Gutenberg

So congress has excluded not only diseased, criminal, pauper and anarchist immigrants, but also contract and Chinese laborers.

From Project Gutenberg

The surgeons made their examination, and they discovered more diseased tissue, and a slowly spreading infection.

From Project Gutenberg

Dr. Legrand seemed to thoroughly understand this twisted and diseased conscience, and had a remedy to offer.

From Project Gutenberg

Nagkapilhuk ang mata nga masakitun, The diseased eye is gradually becoming sunken.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• afflicted
• ailing
• infected
• infirm
• rotten
• sickly