From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Illness & disabilitydysenterydys‧en‧te‧ry /ˈdɪsəntəri $ -teri/ noun [uncountable]MIa serious disease of your bowels that makes them bleed and pass much more waste than usualExamples from the Corpusdysentery• When friends encountered him, they were shocked to discover how wracked by dysentery his body was.• This is one of the most dangerous bacteria that causes dysentery.• Fear of the ratshurried even those with the fluidstomach of embryonicdysentery or gastroenteritis.• She had dysentery for a week.• The slight attack of dysentery had tired me and I had slept most of yesterday and again this morning.• In Madras recuperating from the effects of dysentery self-induced by dietetic experiments, Gandhi searched for an answer.• Many of the children were stricken with dysentery and other digestive-tract ills.Origindysentery(1300-1400)Latindysenteria, from Greek, from dys-"bad" + enteron"bowels"