Infection

Noun

 * 1)  The act or process of infecting.
 * 2) An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.

Related terms

 * infect
 * infected
 * infectable

Derived terms

 * spurious infection

Adjectives for Infection
diphtheritic; acute; common; respiratory; wide-spread; bacterial; innocent; recurrent; severe.

Verbs for Infection
breathe—; combat—; cope with—; contract —; convey—; diagnose—; eradicate—; es¬cape—; expose to—; exterminate—; immun¬ize against—; incise—; introduce—; localize —; predispose to—; purge of—; risk—; scatter—; transmit—; —derives from; — enters; —lingers; —ravages; —spreads.

Thesaurus
abomination, adulteration, aerial infection, afflatus, airborne infection, animating spirit, animation, animus, atrocity, bad, bane, befouling, befoulment, besmirchment, blight, carrier, communicability, contagion, contagiousness, contamination, corruption, crying evil, cryptogenic infection, damage, defilement, despoliation, destruction, detriment, direct infection, dirtying, divine afflatus, droplet infection, dust infection, enlivenment, envenoming, epidemiology, evil, exhilaration, festering, fire, firing, fouling, genius, grievance, hand infection, harm, havoc, hurt, ill, indirect infection, infectiousness, infusion, injury, inspiration, mischief, misuse, moving spirit, outrage, perversion, phytogenic infection, poison, poisoning, pollution, primary infection, prostitution, pyogenic infection, ritual uncleanness, secondary infection, soiling, subclinical infection, suppuration, taint, the worst, toxin, vector, venom, vexation, virus, vitiation, waterborne infection, woe, wrong, zoogenic infection

Etymology
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Translations

 * Arabic:
 * : simp. 传染, trad. 傳染 (chuánrǎn)
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish: tarttuminen
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:


 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, заражение
 * Serbian: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ինֆեկցիա
 * Aymara:
 * Basque: infekzio
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: infecció
 * : 感染 (gǎnrǎn)
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: infekto
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ინფექცია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,


 * Korean: 감염
 * Latin: infectio
 * Latvian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: infecţie
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: инфекција, зараза, заражење
 * Roman: infekcija, zaraza,  zaraženje
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: infektion
 * Thai: (gaan dtìt chéua)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: інфекція
 * Yiddish:

Noun

 * 1)  infection

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  The act or process of infecting.