Cambridge Dictionary of American English
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Definition
symptom
[Hide phonetics]noun [C]
any feeling of illness or physical or mental change that is caused by a disease
Muscle aches and fever are symptoms of the flu.
A symptom is also a situation or problem that seems to represent a more serious and general problem: Rising divorce rates are a symptom of a breakdown of family values, she said.
