rabies
An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis…An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.
» Tom died of rabies after having been bitten by a bat.
Том умер от бешенства после того, как его укусила летучая мышь. — Wezel
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1 senses(uncountable)An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.
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бе́шенствоbéšenstvo
сказskaz
- an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain
Examples
20 sentencesTom died of rabies after having been bitten by a bat.
ruТом умер от бешенства после того, как его укусила летучая мышь. — Wezel
The dog has rabies.
Собака хворий на сказ. — deniko
You must be vaccinated against rabies.
ruВам нужно сделать прививку от бешенства. — corvard
deSie müssen gegen Tollwut geimpft werden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Ziri's dog could have had rabies.
Ziri was a victim of rabies.
Translations
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Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”). Doublet of rage.Learned borrowing from Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”). Doublet of rage.
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Synonyms
4 synonyms- an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain:hydrophobialyssamadness
Word family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.