Collocations for epidemic - noun
ADJ.
major | widespread, worldwide | cholera, flu, typhoid, etc.
EPIDEMIC + VERB
break out, strike (sth)
A typhus epidemic struck in the winter of 1919-20.
A typhus epidemic struck in the winter of 1919-20.
spread, sweep (sth)
the flu epidemic sweeping the country
the flu epidemic sweeping the country
PREP.
during/in an/the ~
Over fifty people died during the flu epidemic last winter.
Over fifty people died during the flu epidemic last winter.
~ of
an epidemic of cholera
an epidemic of cholera
PHRASES
reach epidemic proportions
Marriage breakdown in the West has reached epidemic proportions.
Marriage breakdown in the West has reached epidemic proportions.