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1. (n.) pox
a disease characterized by multiple skin pustules, as smallpox.
2. pox
syphilis.
3. pox
curse; plague:
A pox on you and your bright ideas!
Etymology: (1540–50 (earlier as surname); sp. var. of pocks, pl. of pock)
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1. (noun) syphilis, syph, pox, lues venerea, lues
a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
2. (noun) pox
a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
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1. (noun) pox
strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases
2. (verb) pox
to infect with the pox, or syphilis
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