| NOUN | state | white plague, pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease | involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body |
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| state | white plague, drug addiction | an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug) |
| Meaning | Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body. | |
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| Synonyms | pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease | |
| Broader | tuberculosis, TB, T.B. | infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages / stages) |
| Spanish | tisis, tuberculosis, tuberculosis pulmonar | |
| Catalan | tisi, tuberculosi, tuberculosi pulmonar | |
| Meaning | An addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug). | |
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| Synonym | drug addiction | |
| Category | narcotic | A drug that produces numbness or stupor |
| Narrower | alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness | habitual intoxication |
| caffein addiction | An addiction to caffein | |
| cocaine addiction | An addiction to cocaine | |
| heroin addiction | An addiction to heroin | |
| nicotine addiction | An addiction to nicotine | |
| Broader | addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation | abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) |
| Spanish | drogadicción, drogodependencia, toxicomanía | |
| Catalan | drogaddicció, drogoaddicció, drogodependència, toxicomania | |
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