B1 [ C or U ] (an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by an accident:
a contagious/infectious disease
The first symptom of the disease is a very high temperature.
She has caught/contracted (= begun to have) a lung disease/disease of the lungs.
› [ C ] something that is considered very bad in people or society:
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