Definition of diseases

"diseases" in the noun sense

1. disease

an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

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Quotations for diseases

Many dishes bring many diseases. [ Pliny ]

Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliance are reliev'd.
Or not at all. [ Shakespeare ]

Great passions are incurable diseases. [ Goethe ]

Desperate diseases need desperate cures. [ Proverb ]

Look to thy mouth; diseases enter there. [ George Herbert ]

Diseases are the price of ill pleasures. [ Proverb ]

Time is an herb that cures all diseases. [ Franklin ]

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief.
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison and of plague. [ Armstrong ]

The soul has more diseases than the body. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Against diseases here the strongest fence.
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence. [ Herrick ]

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. [ Ovid ]

Diseases of the eye are to be cured with the elbow. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Remedies are slower in their operation than diseases. [ Tac ]

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. [ Hippocrates ]

We have not only multiplied diseases, bnt we have made them more fatal. [ Rush ]

Great passions are incurable diseases; the very remedies make them worse. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [ Cicero ]

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. [ John Ruskin ]

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. [ Lytton ]

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another. [ William Shakespeare ]

Great passions are incurable diseases; what might heal them is precisely that which makes them so dangerous. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Among all the diseases of the mind, there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. [ Steele ]

By examining the tongue of a patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. [ Justin ]

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases. [ Diogenes ]

Simple diet is best; for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. [ Pliny ]

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies. [ Burton ]

With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much; but what in these dull, unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the liver! [ Carlyle ]

Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]

Food, improperly taken, not only produces originnl diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may. In temperance is certainly its mother. [ Burton ]

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. [ Burton ]

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it. [ Fielding ]

Nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. [ Voltaire ]

The powers of music are felt or known by all men, and are allowed to work strangely upon the mind and the body, the passions and the blood; to raise joy and grief; to give pleasure and pain; to cure diseases, and the mortal sting of the tarantula; to give motions to the feet as well as the heart; to compose disturbed thoughts; to assist and heighten devotion itself. [ Sir W. Temple ]

diseases in Scrabble®

The word diseases is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters diseases:

DISEASES
(90)
DISEASES
(90)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

disease, seaside

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word diseases

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In diseases

DISEASES
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SEASIDE
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diseases in Words With Friends™

The word diseases is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters diseases:

DISEASE
(77 = 42 + 35)
SEASIDE
(77 = 42 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

disease, seaside

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word diseases

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In diseases

DISEASE
(77 = 42 + 35)
SEASIDE
(77 = 42 + 35)
SEASIDE
(71 = 36 + 35)
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Words within the letters of diseases

2 letter words in diseases (5 words)

3 letter words in diseases (12 words)

4 letter words in diseases (13 words)

5 letter words in diseases (8 words)

6 letter words in diseases (4 words)

7 letter words in diseases (2 words)

8 letter words in diseases (Anagrams) (2 words)

Words containing the sequence diseases

Words that start with diseases (1 word)

Words with diseases in them (1 word)

Words that end with diseases (1 word)

Word Growth involving diseases

Shorter words in diseases

as ease disease

is disease

as seas disease

sea seas disease

as ease eases

Longer words containing diseases

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