virus

virus is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.
2. intransitive verb. The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there.
3. intransitive verb. Fig.: Any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books.
4. noun. (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein
5. noun. a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer

   "a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance"

6. noun. a harmful or corrupting agency

   "bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread"

   "the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone"

Common word forms

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