| n. | 1. | Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. | |||
| 2. | An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; - applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished.
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| v. t. | 1. | To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress. | |||
| 2. | To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; - used almost exclusively in the participle diseased. | ||||
| Noun | 1. | disease - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |