disease

tauti, sairaus puhekieltä An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.

The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.

Diseases desperate grown, / By desperate appliances are relieved.

The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished.

War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.

So all that night they passed in great disease.

to shield thee from diseases of the world

Whyll he yett speake, there cam won from the rulers off the synagogis housse, which sayde to hym: Thy doughter is deed, disease not the master.

mote he soft himselfe appease, / And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth; / His double burden did him sore disease.