Contagion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTAGION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• transmission of a disease by direct contact with an infected person or object
• the communication of disease from one person or organism to another by close contact
• a disease spread by close contact
• the spreading of a harmful idea or practice
• passing on of disease by contact
• The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
• That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
• The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
• Venom; poison.
• any disease easily transmitted by contact
• an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
• the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a contagious disease; the transmission of a disease by direct or indirect contact; a disease-producing agent (as a virus)

Words related to CONTAGION

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Words that contain CONTAGION

contagions13 contagionist15 contagionists16

How to use CONTAGION in a sentence

• We have lived to see the day when we are likely to be delivered from the contagion of the most barbarous opinions.
• But she MIGHT take the contagion and she wanted to spare the youngster.
• Almost before they realised what they were doing, the thing became a contagion, an orgy.
• Monster meetings were held in all directions, and it may without exaggeration be said that hardly a Catholic man escaped the contagion.
• I have no fear lest the consternation and cowardice of the rest should reach by contagion to you.
• In these circumstances it seems miraculous that the four sculptors in one bed escaped contagion.
• And it was a curious fact that he had not as yet been infected with the contagion of terror that was being passed from man to man among the villagers.
• The drainage there was of the most primitive type, and the contagion spread rapidly.
• In the contagion of suppressed excitement, the other prisoners paused, their tools held stiffly in their hands.
• Neither John nor Alick could resist the contagion of tenderness which their beloved sister shed into their hearts.
• Famine, in all cases the source and origin of contagion, had done, and was still doing, its work.
• He was in the prison before the messenger had returned and, having been exposed to contagion, was not permitted to leave.
• Above all, the teacher must himself be alive and ready, and must use the contagion of his own example.
• The contagion spread even to my Lord Bishop and his seminary of priests, who gave their plan, which, like all the others, lacked only common sense and judgment.
• After the object lesson which the men had received in the last few days of the danger from contagion to which they would be exposed, it was now unnecessary for Dr.
• La Garde to again warn the brave blacks of the terrible contagion.
• The contagion extends to little boys and girls, whose heads ought to be as empty of all thoughts of sexual relations as the vacuum of an air-pump of air.
• On the other hand, statistics show that the majority of men have acquired disease before they marry, and that a very large percentage of these men convey contagion to their wives.
• Even those accidentally present, when the effects of the ancient contagion were exhibited, became infected and were irresistibly impelled to join in the extravagance.
• The general called it a criminal error to plant the victims of a deadly contagion along a great national highway, like fertile seed in a fertile furrow.
• To take part in the contagion of these ideas, there settled in Jena in 1796 the two phenomenal Schlegel brothers.
• She could give when she had nothing, and keep her heart sweet amid every contagion.
• We have lived to see the day, when we are likely to be delivered from the contagion of the most barbarous opinions.
• Its meadows and fields seemed to lie happily unconscious of the contagion flaming on the billowy hills.
• But there is a pestilence from which men do not fly, and that is the contagion of joy.
• As to our nightly life, the contagion of suspicion and fear was among us, and there is no such contagion under the sky.
• Men in this deplorable state of mind find a comfort in spreading the contagion of their spleen.
• He exposed himself to the contagion of cholera, but his science and fine constitution stood him well in hand, and he returned unharmed.
• But the contagion reached the king, and the popular excitement was endorsed and fanned by a royal decree.

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