Definitions
A once-deadly viral disease that caused fever and a blistering rash.
Word origin
From small + pox, in contrast to greatpox (“syphilis”).
Used in a sentence
“The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.”
“We know that the most deadly of the early epidemics in America were those of the eruptive fevers—smallpox, measles, typhus, and so on. The first to arrive and the deadliest, said contemporaries, was smallpox.”
“Can't make it in today, Mr. Smithers; I have smallpox. Well it wasn't wiped out in my house!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Eradicated viral disease”8 letters
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