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measles

/ˈmizəlz/

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What does measles mean?

noun

  1. An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.
  2. plural of measle: a red spot forming part of a rash, (now) particularly those caused by M. morbillivirus.
  3. Synonym of cysticercosis: A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae.
More meanings (10)

noun

  1. plural of measle: the individual cysts of cysticercosis.
  2. (figuratively) plural of measle: any similar-looking red spot, particularly (printing) foxing.
  3. A discreet assassination made to look like death from natural causes.
  4. (obsolete) Any disease causing a tree's bark to become rough and irregular.
  5. (obsolete) plural of measle: the individual blisters in the surface of a diseased tree's bark.
  6. (obsolete) Any disease causing red rashes.
  7. (obsolete) Used as an intensifier.
  8. (obsolete) plural of measle
  9. (obsolete) Alternative form of mesels: Leprosy.

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of measle

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈmizəlz/

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He hunted up Jim Hollis, who called his attention to the precious blessing of his late measles as a warning.
Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, CompleteProject Gutenberg ebook #74
A child with talent must be kept at the piano, just as a child with measles must be kept under the blankets.
Willa CatherThe Song of the LarkProject Gutenberg ebook #44
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During the spring term she had measles which left her with a hacking cough, and she did not regain her lost weight.
Robert S. (Robert Sproul) CarrollOur Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of NervousnessProject Gutenberg ebook #5994
Their essential identity in the two sexes is likewise shewn by their occasional sympathetic enlargement in both during an attack of the measles.
Charles DarwinThe Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to SexProject Gutenberg ebook #2300
The larvae are present in meat and pork, and this form of parasitism is termed beef measles in cattle and pork measles in hogs.
Robert Alexander CraigCommon Diseases of Farm AnimalsProject Gutenberg ebook #8502