Smallpox Definition

smôlpŏks
noun
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.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
smallpox
Plural:
smallpoxes

Origin of Smallpox

  • Early Modern English small pockes small pustules (as opposed to great pockes the great pox or syphilis) from pockes pl. of pock pock

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From small +"Ž pox.

    From Wiktionary

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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