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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"
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.
Inflating
- verb - become inflated; "The sails ballooned"
- cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit; "The war inflated the economy"
- exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
- fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"
- increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency"
Inflation
- noun - (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
- a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
- lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- the act of filling something with air
Ingesting
- verb - serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
- take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"