Definitions for infection

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infection in·fec·tion

Spelling: [in-fek-shuh n]

IPA: /ɪnˈfɛk ʃən/

Infection is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 217 anagrams from letters in infection (cefiinnot).

Definitions for infection

noun

1. an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
2. an infecting with germs of disease, as through the medium of infected insects, air, water, or clothing.
3. an infecting agency or influence.
4. an infectious disease:
5. the condition of suffering an infection.
6. corruption of another's opinions, beliefs, moral principles, etc.; moral contamination.
7. an influence or impulse passing from one to another and affecting feeling or action.
8. Grammar. (in Celtic languages) assimilation in which a vowel is influenced by a following vowel or semivowel; umlaut.

Origin of infection

1350-1400; Middle English infeccio(u)n Late Latin infectiōn- (stem of infectiō). See infect, -ion

Examples for infection

My brother recovered at the period when I sickened from the infection of his disease.

It builds up anti-bodies to fight off the infection in the blood.

Then he caught the infection, and began to laugh, too, but without knowing why.

“Convalescent blood transfusions and plasma transfusions may help people who are sick survive the infection,” he says.

It was from the Gurneys he “caught the infection” of self-improvement.

Testing methods can now detect HIV within ten days of infection.

Four weeks after the injections, all 20 of the participants had developed the antibodies needed to stave off the infection.

He was vainly entreated not to expose himself to the infection.

A “simple bout of flu” is incapable of mutating into an Ebola infection.

Is it wise of you to expose yourself so much to the infection?