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Infecting
- verb - affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"
- communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold"
- contaminate with a disease or microorganism
- corrupt with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism"
Infection
- noun - (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
- (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
- (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
- an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
- moral corruption or contamination; "ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable"
- the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people; "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"
- the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
Infective
- adjective - able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria"
- caused by infection or capable of causing infection; "viruses and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease"
Inferring
- verb -
- believe to be the case;
- draw from specific cases for more general cases
- guess correctly; solve by guessing;
- reason by deduction; establish by deduction
Infertile
- adjective - incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"
Infesting
- verb - invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen"
- live on or in a host, as of parasites
- occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"
Infestive
- - Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn.
Infirmity
- noun - the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Infixxing
- verb - attach a morpheme into a stem word
- put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the text"
Inflaming
- verb - arousal to violent emotion
- arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred"
- become inflamed; get sore; "His throat inflamed"
- catch fire; "The dried grass of the prairie kindled, spreading the flames for miles"
- cause inflammation in; "The repetitive motion inflamed her joint"
- cause to start burning; "The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds"