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Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague..

Anthrax :: Anthrax (n.) An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever..

Infection :: Infection (n.) Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication..

Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air..

Miasma :: Miasma (n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.

Malaria :: Malaria (n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma..

Leaven :: Leaven (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

Murrion :: Murrion (a.) Infected with or killed by murrain.

Cleanse :: Cleanse (v. t.) To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean..

Plagueful :: Plagueful (a.) Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations..

Measled :: Measled (a.) Infected or spotted with measles, as pork..

Taintless :: Taintless (a.) Free from taint or infection; pure.

Syphilitic :: Syphilis (n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary..

Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices..

Execute :: Execute (v. t.) To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor..

Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To infect; to affect slightly.

Disinfected :: Disinfected (imp. & p. p.) of Disinfec.

Bejaundice :: Bejaundice (v. t.) To infect with jaundice.

Infection :: Infection (n.) Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.

Infecting :: Infecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infec.

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