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martyr | smallpox |

As nouns the difference between martyr and smallpox

is that martyr is one who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom while smallpox is (pathology) an acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by of the family poxviridae it was completely eradicated in the 1970s those who survived were left with pockmarks.

As a verb martyr

is to make someone into a martyr by putting him or her to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.

martyr

English

(wikipedia martyr)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.
    • Saint Stephen was the first Christian martyr .
  • (by extension) One who sacrifices his or her life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
  • (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.
    • Stan is a martyr''' to arthritis, Chris a ' martyr to Stan's endless moaning about it.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1937 , author=AJ Cronin , title=The Citadel , passage=He'd been a martyr to asthma all his life.}}
  • One who is killed or suffers greatly because of an identity or position, e.g., a young prince killed when his father, the king, is deposed for the purpose of preventing the restoration of the monarchy later.

    • Synonyms

    * shaheed, shahid

    Antonyms

    * confessor

    Derived terms

    {{der3, martyr complex , martyrdom , martyress , martyrial , martyrish , martyrizate , martyrize , martyrizer , martyrly , martyrolatry , martyrless , martyrship}}

    Related terms

    {{rel3, martyrdom , martyrion , martyrium , martyrologe , martyrologue , martyrology , martyry , protomartyr}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make someone into a martyr by putting him or her to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
  • To persecute.
    • ''Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction.
  • To torment; to torture.
    • The lovely Amoret, whose gentle heart
    Thou martyrest with sorrow and with smart. — Spenser

    Synonyms

    * martyrize

    Derived terms

    * martyrer

    smallpox

    English

    (wikipedia smallpox)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (pathology) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by of the family Poxviridae . It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
  • * The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox , measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.

    • Synonyms

    * variola

    Derived terms

    * smallpox blanket