Infection
[ɪn'fekʃ(ə)n] or [ɪn'fɛkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure.
(noun.) moral corruption or contamination; 'ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable'.
(noun.) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted.
(noun.) (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease.
(noun.) (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound.
(noun.) the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms.
Typist: Merritt--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or process of infecting.
(n.) That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.
(n.) The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.
(n.) That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.
(n.) Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.
(n.) Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Contagion.[2]. Contamination, taint, bane, pest, poison.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Taint, poison, contamination, corruption, contagion
ANT:Purification, disinfection, antidote
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Examples
- The second day a fever had come and D'Arnot thought that it meant infection and he knew that he would die. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- She hung over the patient in agony, which was not mitigated when her thoughts wandered towards her babes, for whom she feared infection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It may turn to infection--but no such deplorable complication had taken place when I left Blackwater Park. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The use of the weakened inoculation had developed it s resistance to infection. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He remained to combat the fiend--his side unguarded, his toils unshared--infection might even reach him, and he die unattended and alone. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There is not a drop of Tom's corrupted blood but propagates infection and contagion somewhere. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We discussed the best means of preventing infection, and of preserving health and activity in a large city thus afflicted--London, for instance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There was a moral infection of clap-trap in him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Has the fever turned to infection? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The infection had now spread in the southern provinces of France. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In those moments, Mr Pancks began to give out the dangerous infection with which he was laden. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They should not die--first I would be gathered to nothingness, ere infection should come anear these idols of my soul. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Sergeant Cuff had left his infection behind him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He knew the horrors of purulent infection in military hospitals, and regretted that the principles of Pasteur and Lister were not more fully applied. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But it is not to be supposed, because the new thing succumbs to the old infections, that is the final condemnation of the new thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This study of the disease s of beer led him nearer to a knowledge of infections. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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