infection

infection has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
• n.. moral corruption or contamination; "ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable"
• n.. the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people; "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"
• n.. an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
• n.. (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
• n.. (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound