Definition of epidemics

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  • epidemics is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 16
  • epidemics is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 16
  • epidemics is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 19

Definition of epidemics


  • a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time (noun)
  • (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously (adjective)

    Examples

    1. an epidemic outbreak of influenza

See definition of epidemics in Merriam Webster