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pandemic

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of pandemic

medical an occurrence in which a disease spreads very quickly and affects a large number of people over a wide area or throughout the world

The 1918 flu pandemic claimed millions of lives.

the AIDS pandemic

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of pandemic

pest, pestilence, plague

affection, affliction, ailment, contagion, illness, infection, infirmity, malady, sickness

blight, curse, scourge

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