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say it: di-ZEEZD
diseased is an adjective meaning "caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology". It carries one recorded sense.
caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
“diseased tonsils”
“a morbid growth”
“pathologic tissue”
“pathological bodily processes”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for diseased come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.