pox
IPA: pˈɑks
noun
- A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
- Syphilis.
- (figurative) A curse.
verb
- (transitive, dated) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
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Examples of "pox" in Sentences
- She died of the pox.
- He died in 1893 of small pox at the age of 49.
- She took the medicine to cure small pox and cholera.
- Ron says: vaccinating for chicken pox is stupid, Albert.
- At the end of the biography, it states she died of small pox.
- Pox and Crypto manage to deactivate it and re enter the city.
- He was an early proponent of inoculation to prevent small pox.
- The institution faced outbreaks of flu, small pox, and measles.
- He and Pox set off for the Fourth Ring of Furon to confront the emperor.
- He found the area deserted as a result of the small pox epidemic of 1862.
- In 1738, a small pox epidemic decimated both the Cheraws and the Catawbas.
- I think the incubation time for chicken pox is under a week though, right?
- Nothing discredits an administration like attacking a news organization. pox is not a news organization.
- Chicken pox is usually fairly harmless, but it can, under certain circumstances, be extremely dangerous.
- I still think that pathetic picture of her with her pox is about the most heart-wrenching picture I’ve seen.
- Now as to the first Inoculation for the small pox is almost always a great mitigator of the evils of that disease.
- In China small-pox is believed to date from B.C. 1200; but the chronology of the Middle Kingdom still awaits the sceptic.
- Bozo The Neoclown says: so, lemmie get this straight. maybe one percent of the population of this country tunes in pox news and cancervatards crow this is a stunning success?
- Bozo The Neoclown says: one again pox is wrong. bill clinton has government run health care insurance thanks to his stint as president. much like the geriatrics who watch pox all day, also covered by government run medicare.
- The small-pox is a very grievous and painful disease, and would be much more terrible than it is but that we know the extremity of it ordinarily lasts but a few days; how grievous then was the disease of Job, who was smitten all over with sore boils or grievous ulcers, which made him sick at heart, put him to exquisite torture, and so spread themselves over him that he could lie down no way for any ease.