Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A disease characterized by skin eruptions (especially purulent ones) that may leave pockmarks.

    о́спаóspa

    a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks

  2. A disease characterized by skin eruptions (especially purulent ones) that may leave pockmarks.

    (countable, uncountable)Syphilis.

  3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A curse.

    a pox on all their houses

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Tom gave me the chicken pox.

    Том заразив мене вітрянкою.

    ruТом наградил меня ветрянкой.

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  2. I had chicken pox as a kid.

    Я хворів у дитинстві на вітрянку.

    ruЯ болел ветрянкой в детстве.

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  3. I had chicken pox when I was a kid.

    У дитинстві я хворів на вітрянку.

    ruВ детстве я болел ветрянкой.

    deAls Kind hatte ich Windpocken.

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  4. Tom has to stay in the house because he has the chicken pox.

    Том мусить залишатися вдома, бо у нього вітрянка.

    deTom muss im Haus bleiben, weil er Windpocken hat.

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  5. There was only one case of chicken pox at the school.

    У школі був лише один випадок вітрянки.

    ruВ школе был только один случай ветрянки.

    deEs gab an der Schule nur einen Fall von Windpocken.

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Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmark — see also smallpox, variola:

Origin

From the plural of Middle English pocke. See also pock. The curse sense involves metonymy:

From the plural of Middle English pocke. See also pock. The curse sense involves metonymy: wishing a literal pox upon someone is the original form of pox-relevant curse, and the word pox itself also came to mean curse.

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Forms

plural: poxes
Singularpox
Pluralpoxes

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta):syphilissyphlues venerealues

Word family

43 related words

See also

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