Concept cluster: Physical processes > Parasitism or harmful invasion
adj
(medicine) Affected by an abscess.
v
(transitive, pathology) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
v
(transitive) To infect via autoinfection.
n
The process or the result of becoming coarse
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(archaic) contagion; contagious matter
n
That which contaminates; an impurity; foreign matter.
v
(transitive) To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
n
Something which contaminates.
adj
(medicine) Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
v
Synonym of unbosom
v
To infect
n
(obsolete) ulceration
n
One who, or that which, infects.
n
Something that infects; that which causes infection.
n
something that infests.
adj
Tending to infest; acting like an infection.
n
That which paralyses.
n
(rare in UK English) A pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.
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A service that removes pests.
n
A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
v
(slang, transitive) To infect (someone) with a sexually transmitted disease.
v
(transitive) To infect (a computer system) with a rootkit.
adj
(obsolete) Deprived of the spleen.
n
(countable) A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia.
n
(rare) Act of tepefying; a becoming tepid.
v
(computing, transitive) To infect (a system) with a trojan.
n
Alternative form of varmint [A pestering animal such as one that kills or harasses a farmer's livestock or crops.]

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