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infection

English

🔊 (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
🔊 moral corruption or contamination
“ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable”
🔊 an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
🔊 (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
🔊 the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
🔊 the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
“a contagion of mirth”