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Aids

//eɪdz// adj, noun, verb, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Extremely annoying or frustrating. slang, vulgar

    "Dude, this game is so fucking AIDS."

Noun
  1. 1
    Acronym of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable

    "Patients with AIDS become highly susceptible to infection by intracellular microbes normally contained by T cells (Fig. 4.8)."

  2. 2
    plural of aid form-of, plural
  3. 3
    Alternative letter-case form of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”). alt-of, uncountable

    "If you were a South African health journalist during the late 1990s and early 2000s, you were mostly an Aids reporter."

  4. 4
    a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of aid form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

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