AIDS
noun /eɪdz/
/eɪdz/
(British English usually Aids)
[uncountable]- an illness that attacks the body’s ability to resist infection and that usually causes death (the abbreviation for ‘Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome’)
- AIDS research/education/victims
- He developed full-blown AIDS five years after contracting HIV.
- She died of an AIDs-related illness at the age of 54.
Extra ExamplesTopics Illnessb2- Six cases of AIDS have been reported.
- a worldwide campaign to prevent the spread of AIDS
- people fighting AIDS
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full-blown
- case
- be infected with
- fight
- have
- …
- patient
- sufferer
- victim
- …
- the spread of AIDS