dengue
An acute febrile disease of thetropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus,…An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.
» The tiger mosquito is one of the most common carriers of chikungunya and dengue.
Тигровий комар - один з найпоширеніших носіїв чикунгуньї та денги.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable, usually)An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.
Denguefieber
an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints
Examples
5 sentencesThe tiger mosquito is one of the most common carriers of chikungunya and dengue.
Тигровий комар - один з найпоширеніших носіїв чикунгуньї та денги.
The trip wasn't all good. I got food poisoning and my classmate got dengue fever.
His rash is due to Dengue fever.
Dengue is spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
But researchers may have found a way to use Wolbachia's sterilizing power on mosquitos that carry Dengue, and Zika.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From West Indian Spanish dengue in 1828, from the Kiswahili term dinga (in full kidingapopFrom West Indian Spanish dengue in 1828, from the Kiswahili term dinga (in full kidingapopo or kidinga pepo, "a kind of sudden cramp-like seizure caused by an evil spirit", dinga itself meaning sudden cramp-like seizure). The borrowed term changed to dengue in Spanish due to this word existing in Spanish with the meaning "fastidiousness" and the folk etymology referring to the dislike of movement by affected patients of chikungunya which was also reffered to as dengue until the first half of the 20th century.
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Forms
plural: dengues| Singular | dengue |
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uncountable
Synonyms
3 synonyms- an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints:dengue feverdandy feverbreakbone fever
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable