contagiousadjective
uk/kənˈteɪ.dʒəs/us/kənˈteɪ.dʒəs/A contagious disease can be caught by touching someone who has the disease or a piece of infected clothing:
The infection is highly contagious, so don't let anyone else use your towel.
A contagious person has a contagious disease:
Keep him out of school until he's not contagious anymore.
A contagious feeling spreads quickly among people:
Fear is contagious.
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Passing on illness & causing disease
- carrier
- carry
- catch
- epidemic
- harbour
- incubate
- infect
- infected
- infest
- insalubrious
- mediastinum
- non-communicable
- prophylactic
- transmission
- transmit
- unhygienic
- vector
- verminous
- virulence
- virulent
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