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Related topics: Illness & disabilityty·phus /ˈtaɪfəs/ noun [uncountable] MIa serious infectious disease carried by insects that live on the bodies of people and animals 斑疹伤寒 a typhus epidemic 斑疹伤寒的流行Examples from the Corpustyphus• Famine and a typhus epidemic struck in the winter of 1919-20.• Life is easier, until a typhus epidemic sweeps the school.• In the final camp, Allach, typhus struck Greenspun, Regina and Bela.• Louse-borne typhus has killed more people than have died in warfare.• Fiabhras dubh, typhus, the black fever.• My own father died of typhus in that war.• She died of typhus fever in the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary, 19 February 1868.• Helen Burns could not come walking with me, because she was ill, not with typhus but with tuberculosis.Origin typhus (1700-1800) Modern Latin Greek typhos “fever”ty·phus nounChineseSyllable insects disease Corpus by live that infectious serious a carried |