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Flu

/flʉː/

Influenza.

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📖 Definitions of "Flu"

noun

1
Influenza.
2
Stomach flu.

🔄 Synonyms of "Flu"

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
influenzanoun	(pathology) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.
grippenoun	(pathology, dated) Influenza, the flu.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Flu"

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Word	Definition
grippenoun	(pathology, dated) Influenza, the flu.
influenzanoun	(pathology) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.
plaguenoun	(often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
virusnoun	A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and that sometimes causes disease in the host organism (such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms).
pandemicnoun	(epidemiology) A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.
vaccinationnoun	Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.
vaccinenoun	(immunology) A substance given to stimulate a body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease (or a derivative of it; or a related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute; also, a dose of such a substance.
diseasenoun	(medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
coldnoun	(uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
aviannoun	A bird.
birdnoun	An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
flownoun	Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
fluenoun	A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
ailmentnoun	Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
illnessnoun	(uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
shotnoun	The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
sensenoun	Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
ulfnoun	(electronics) Initialism of Ultra Low Frequency, the band of radio waves between 300 hertz and 3000 hertz.
cloutnoun	(informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
influencenoun	The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.