Synonyms for typhus

Grammar : Noun

Spell : tahy-fuh s

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtaɪ fəs

Définition of typhus

Origin : acute infectious fever, 1785, from Modern Latin (De Sauvages, 1759), from Greek typhos "stupor caused by fever," literally "smoke," from typhein "to smoke," related to typhos "blind," typhon "whirlwind," ultimately origin unknown. The disease so called from the prostration that it causes.

As in spotted fever : noun febrile disease

Example sentences :

The campaign had almost come to a standstill owing to typhus.
Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various

And what if it should turn out the cholera, or typhus, or something as bad?
Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) » by Charles James Lever

I judge the typhus is where the baby' slobbered on the shawl, and it's come off on him.
Extract from : « The Little Man (From Six Short Plays) » by John Galsworthy

In February he resurrected the question but that time he was put off by the typhus.
Extract from : « Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 » by Ian Hamilton

She lasted a month or so at that—typhus, or a German shell, I don't know which.
Extract from : « Torchy, Private Sec. » by Sewell Ford

Nothing is left but that she prove her sisterhood by dying, and infecting you with typhus.
Extract from : « Past and Present » by Thomas Carlyle

If there's a' sough o' cholera,Or typhus,—wha sae gleg as she?
Extract from : « The Book of Humorous Verse » by Various

Is that Sarah that I left in her bed of typhus faver this night?
Extract from : « The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine » by William Carleton

I thought at least you would have been laid up for a month with the typhus fever!
Extract from : « The Heir of Redclyffe » by Charlotte M. Yonge

He was taken to a hospital, where he lay for three months with typhus.
Extract from : « The Goose Man » by Jacob Wassermann

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