Dictionary Entry
infection
infection is a 9-letter English word with 13 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of infecting. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or process of infecting.
- 2noun
That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.
- 3noun
The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.
- 4noun
That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.
- 5noun
Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.
- 6noun
Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.
- 7noun
(international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
- 8noun
moral corruption or contamination
"ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable"
- 9noun
the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
"a contagion of mirth"
"the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"
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- 10noun
an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
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- 11noun
(medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
- 12noun
(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
- 13noun
the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
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