venereal disease
noun/vəˈnɪəriəl dɪziːz/
/vəˈnɪriəl dɪziːz/
[countable, uncountable] (abbreviation VD)
(old-fashioned)- a disease that is caught by having sex with a person who already has the disease synonym STI
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