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leprosy ~ (A) ~ a very bad illness. It is an illness of the skin and bones. Other people would not talk to people who had leprosy. They called them dirty. People with leprosy could not live inside a town. They lived outside the town away from other people. To make them clean means to make them well again.
leprosy ~ (B) ~ serious disease of the skin.
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