superflu

Any strain of flu that spreads unusually quickly, is unusually virulent, or is unusually unresponsive to treatment.

Noun

  1. Any strain of flu that spreads unusually quickly, is unusually virulent, or is unusually unresponsive to treatment.
    • In the wake of the superflus and cataclysmic events, male writers tend to jump to that unholy trinity of rape, murder and cannibalism. - 2015 July 23, Sloane Crosley, “It’s the End of the World as She Knows It”, in New...

    Hypernyms: flu influenza infectious disease disease condition

    Related: super flu

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English flu English superflu From super- + flu.

Forms

superflus

Related

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