Meanings
adjectivehyperepidemic (not comparable)
- not comparableVery highly epidemic.
According to Erwin Ackerknecht, the disease was hyperepidemic in New England from 1870 to 1890.
1991, Todd L. Savitt, James Harvey Young, Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South, page 42
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with hyperepidemic
academicsystemicepidemicendemicepistemicpolemicdemicleukemicnonacademicracemicanthemictotemicmultisystemicalchemicpostischemicchemicportosystemicallelochemicantiacademicantiepidemicchernozemicchronosystemicdiasystemicecoepidemic
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