"Infectious" is a word in ENGLISH
Having qualities that may infect; communicable or
caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever;
infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and
forfeiture.
Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate;
vitiating; demoralizing.
Capable of being easily diffused or spread;
sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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Read the complete definitionInfectious; contagious.
Read the complete definitionan bill of bealtb. one certifying that no contagious or infectious disease exists, or certifying as to healthy conditions generally …
Read the complete definitionTo free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.
Read the complete definitionAny substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said …
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Read the complete definitionTo affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.
Read the complete definitionThat which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is …
Read the complete definitionIn an infectious manner.
Read the complete definitionThe quality of being infectious.
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Read the complete definitionlatón - To infect, taint with, contaminate, be contagious, infectious, catching, spread from one to the other. Andam ka, agúd …
Read the complete definitionLeprous; infectious; corrupting; poisonous.
Read the complete definitionmakalaláton - (H) Contagious, infectious, catching, taking, spreading. (cf. latón, manlaláton).
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