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Definition of health
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Synonyms & Antonyms for health
Synonyms
fitness, healthiness, heartiness, robustness, sap, soundness, verdure, wellness, wholeness, wholesomeness
Antonyms
illness, sickness, unhealthiness, unsoundness
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Examples of health in a Sentence
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For years, there has been no known cure for HIV, the life-long viral infection that attacks the body's immune system and can have significant health consequences. — Jessie Yeung, CNN, "HIV diagnoses in the UK fall to lowest level in nearly 20 years," 5 Sep. 2019 Social scientists and public-health researchers have begun to dig into these records and have produced more than 50 publications so far—up from a trickle of papers on the topic before 2015. — Lynne Peeples, Scientific American, "What the Data Say about Police Shootings," 5 Sep. 2019 That has yet to happen because, amid the wait, Milligan’s health deteriorated. — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Starving seniors: America is failing to feed its aging citizens, which is costly to them and to everyone else," 5 Sep. 2019 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, local state health agencies, and the Food and Drug Administration are scrambling for answers. — Wired, "Vaping May Hamper the Lungs' Ability to Fend off Infections," 4 Sep. 2019 The stress of finding and holding onto housing in the county’s tight market can be detrimental to mental and physical health. — Los Angeles Times, "Newsletter: Five members of the same family among those presumed dead in boat fire," 4 Sep. 2019 Six additional trees along Marine Avenue that appear distressed will undergo advanced stability and health testing, and long-empty patches along the cozy boulevard of mom-and-pop shops and cafes will promptly be refilled with young eucalyptuses. — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, "Removal coming for some Balboa Island trees, testing for others," 4 Sep. 2019 Perhaps the most worrisome aspect is that the impact of microplastics on human health remains unclear. — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, "22 million pounds of plastics enter the Great Lakes each year. Most of the pollution pours into Lake Michigan.," 4 Sep. 2019 The participants, who were predominantly white and single, answered a series of questions and got tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia at the university’s health clinic. — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, "'Extreme' personal grooming isn't linked to increased risk of STIs," 4 Sep. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'health.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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