Synonyms for rabies
ˈreɪ bizra·bies

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1. rabiesnoun

   Synonyms:
   hydrophobia

2. rabiesnoun

   A viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.

   Synonyms:
   hydrophobia

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1. rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madnessnoun

   an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain

   Synonyms:
   lyssa, insaneness, fury, rage, rabidity, hydrophobia, madness, rabidness, foolishness, lunacy, folly, craziness

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1. • Zoonosis

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1. rabiesnoun

   Synonyms:
   hydrophobia

   Associated words:
   rabid, rabietic, hydrophobic, antihydrophobic

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1. List of paraphrases for "rabies":

   rage

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1. Emelye Bunny:

   Australia is definitely the most complicated and strictest place to get a pet to, you have two things that are the first to be done: a rabies injection, a month's wait after then a blood test to ensure it has been effective.

2. Jonathan Moyo:

   In Germany when you want to kill dogs you cause rabies. In Zimbabwe when you want to grab power unconstitutionally you cause social unrest!

3. Emily Pieracci:

   We've been seeing cases in people in United States who seem to not really be aware that rabies can be transmitted by wildlife, especially bats, a lot of times, bat bites and scratches are very tiny. So a lot of people will try to hold a bat and they don't realize that bat has bitten.

4. Public Health -LRB- DPH -RRB-:

   Rabies can turn wild animals extremely aggressive toward humans and pets, it is always important to be sure to never approach or feed wild animals. Keeping your trash covered and not leaving pet food outside of your house can be helpful ways to prevent attracting unwanted wild animals into our neighborhoods.

5. Maine IF&W:

   I’d been aware of the rabies incidents in Brunswick so I almost instinctively hit this animal on the head with the club I had, fortunately, I my hand.