Infection is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INFECTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of infecting
• the process of infecting or the state of being infected
• an infectious disease
• the presence of a virus in, or its introduction into, a computer system.
• The act or process of infecting.
• That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.
• The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.
• That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.
• Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.
• Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.
• the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
• (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
• (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
• an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
• the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
• moral corruption or contamination
• (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
• infectious disease
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or result of affecting injuriously

Words related to INFECTION

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Words that contain INFECTION

infections15 reinfection16 coinfection18 disinfection18 reinfections17 coinfections19 autoinfection18 disinfections19 postinfection20 autoinfections19 superinfection21 superinfections22

How to use INFECTION in a sentence

• The lecturer said he could not say positively, but he believed that none of their dear ones would have been sick had they understood how to guard against the infection.
• Nothing was left untried to free it from infection.
• Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
• Suddenly, because of the infection, the importation of skins from Roumania was forbidden.
• Cleanliness would stamp out this trouble in a very little time, and preserve healthy children from infection.
• Because, if sisters of yours must needs be exposed to the infection, it shall be where I am present to watch them and control you.
• He entreated the house to wait for the event, and to guard with all possible care against catching the French infection.
• The infection spread into the town of Boston, and made much havoc there.
• Sometimes, perhaps, it was brought into the country by a poor sailor, who had caught the infection in foreign parts, and came hither to die and to be the cause of many deaths.
• Heat and moisture increases the activity of the germ of infection.
• Not only is alcohol responsible in this way, but also in any given case it renders infection more probable for more reasons than one.
• So far as known chestnut trees from west of the Wabash River are free from infection.
• She is not free from infection yet, but she is quite out of danger, if she does not catch a chill.
• The second circle could be ten times as large, as the infection spread from one to a few to many.
• They knew, at least, that there was no current danger of infection.
• It is a known fact that Napoleon was obliged to have the hut burned which had harbored an idea that had become a mortal infection.
• The Happy Family, at that high tension where they were ready for anything, caught the infection and began shooting and yelling like crazy men.
• When the thing was doubtful with us, the North by no means escaped the infection.
• Sedley caught the infection because he neither was, nor wished to be, secluded from the rest of the prisoners, some of whom were, I fear, only too congenial society to him.
• The sister states soon caught the infection, and sharing in the hope of independence, they too withdrew from the Union.
• Even the daily press in some cities has caught the infection, if infection it may be called.
• Typical wounds of this sort are often made in shaving, and infection of such wounds is extraordinarily rare.
• Tuberculosis is also one of the best examples of what is known as latent infection.
• It is now generally recognized that infection with tuberculosis does not take place in the open, but in houses in which the bacilli on being discharged are not destroyed.
• With increasing years the opportunities for infection increase.
• There were also cases in which the patient, after taking medicine for a time, had communicated the infection to others.

Similar words containing FEC without suffix tion and without prefix in

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