cholera
noun/ˈkɒlərə/
/ˈkɑːlərə/
[uncountable]- a serious disease caught from bacteria in water that causes severe diarrhoea and vomiting and often causes death
- A cholera epidemic swept the country.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + cholera- have
- suffer from
- catch
- …
- outbreak
- epidemic
- outbreak
- case
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting bile and later applied to various ailments involving vomiting and diarrhoea): from Latin cholera ‘diarrhoea’ (from Greek kholera), which in late Latin acquired the senses ‘bile’ or ‘anger’, from Greek kholē ‘bile’. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.Definitions on the go
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