epidemic
adjective
Also epidemical (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
epidemically
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a word derived from
epidemic.
Example Sentences
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Cholera can spread two ways: endemically or epidemically.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 3, 2018
It existed in Michigan between 1868 and 1874, but only in the latter year epidemically, and not to a very great extent.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
He seems himself to have suffered from a severe attack of typhus fever which raged epidemically in Vienna in 1798.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Curiously the same desire is epidemically prevalent among your friends, not least here.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley
The metaphor of germs would be more appropriate if applied to the ideas of the party-programmes, for these ideas are introduced by a few wise or foolish men and disseminated epidemically throughout their respective parties.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
