infection

Noun

• (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
    

• the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
  • a contagion of mirth
    
  • the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry
    

• 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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  contagion , transmission