Smallpox Synonyms

smôlpŏks
An acute, highly contagious disease caused by a poxvirus and characterized by prolonged fever, vomiting, and pustular eruptions that often left pitted scars, or pockmarks, when healed: eradicated in the 1970s
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. variola
  2. cowpox
  3. the pox
  4. white man's disease
  5. variola major

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Smallpox Sentence Examples

  • Smallpox has been with us for thousands of years.

  • In 1958, with smallpox still killing two million people a year, the World Health Organization pledged to eradicate it.

  • She contracted smallpox at the age of 33.

  • In 1733-1734 there was a dreadful epidemic of smallpox, which destroyed a great number of the people.

  • At the age of twelve he fell ill of smallpox, but his parents showed little or no interest in his recovery.

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