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- verb Present participle of
disease .
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Examples
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So, what we seem to be seeing is what Stanton Peele called diseasing of America - namely, diseasing of America's (unhealthy) habits.
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But—and here is another unintended benefit of the diseasing of depression—they have managed to point out that people are suffering from recalcitrant unhappiness in epidemic numbers.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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The UK sociologist and political commentator Frank Furedi wrote recently about how the UK government was "diseasing the recession" and planned to train 3,600 therapists to set up centers around Britain to deal with what it perceives as a "growing army of mentally ill people."
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The UK sociologist and political commentator Frank Furedi wrote recently about how the UK government was "diseasing the recession" and planned to train 3,600 therapists to set up centers around Britain to deal with what it perceives as a "growing army of mentally ill people."
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Rather than curing one thing and diseasing another, I stopped applying the Number 7 solution.
Doctor, My Eyes 2009
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The UK sociologist and political commentator Frank Furedi wrote recently about how the UK government was "diseasing the recession" and planned to train 3,600 therapists to set up centers around Britain to deal with what it perceives as a "growing army of mentally ill people."
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This calls into question the contention that diseasing depression destigmatizes it.
Bruce E. Levine: Depressed Lawyers: A Little Help For My Friends 2008
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Similarly, the time-intensive players often valued "control the battlefield" by poisining/diseasing characters to the point that the heals/mind-healing would force them out of fighting for 15-20 minutes.
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Under the influence, however, of opium, when it reaches its maximum in diseasing the liver and deranging the digestive functions, all exertion whatever is revolting in excess.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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That enormous weight of skirts that you hang over portions of your bodies that should be choicely protected instead of burdened, how they hang down like so many dead weights on your vitality, weakening and diseasing the most delicate economy of your fearfully and wonderfully made systems! and how your whole frames are taxed every day of your lives with this wrongly placed and worse than useless burden.
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