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noun
Influenza, the flu.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: influenza, flu
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: contagious disease, contagion, respiratory disease, respiratory illness, respiratory disorder
Narrower terms: Asian influenza, Asiatic flu, swine influenza, swine flu
History
Borrowed from French grippe, from gripper (“to seize, snatch”), from Frankish *grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ghreyb- (“to grab, to grasp”). Borrowed from French into many languages of the world. More at gripe.
