disease

1. disease (noun) — sense 1

Definition: 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.

Example: The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and their fruit withered.

2. disease (noun) — sense 2

Definition: Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.

Example: War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.

3. disease (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

Example: To ſhield thee from diſeaſes of the world, […]

4. disease (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To infect with a disease.

5. disease (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.

Example: Whyll he yett ſpeake
there cam won from the rulers off the ſynagogis houſſe
which ſayde to hym: Thy doughter is deed
diſeaſe not the maſter.