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typhoid

/ˈtaɪ.fɔɪd/ adjective B2
  1. Characterised by or relating to typhus.
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She died of typhoid the year before I met him.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 51 · C1
Now, I knew that them two houses in Lauriston Gardens was empty on account of him that owns them who won’t have the drains seen to, though the very last tenant what lived in one of them died o’ typhoid fever.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 41 · B2
I ain’t afeared of anything on this side o’ the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o’ the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 42 · B2
The doctors open the body and say with an air of profound learning, ‘The subject has died of a tumor on the liver, or of typhoid fever!
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 531 · C1

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