Word Meanings - REINFECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To infect again.

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• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• INFECTIVE
  Infectious. Beau. & Fl. True love . . . hath an infective power. Sir P. Sidney.
• AGAIN
  again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
• INFECTIOUS
  Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent. 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. The laughter
• INFECTIOUS DISEASE
  Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• AGAIN; AGAINS
  Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
• AGAINWARD
  Back again.
• INFECTIOUSNESS
  The quality of being infectious.
• INFECTION
  Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication. 6. Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence. Through all her train the soft infection ran. Pope. Mankind are gay or serious by infection. Rambler.
• AGAINBUY
  To redeem. Wyclif.
• INFECT
  Infected. Cf. Enfect. Shak.
• INFECTIBLE
  Capable of being infected.
• INFECTER
  One who, or that which, infects.
• REINFECT
  To infect again.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• DISINFECT
  To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.
• DISINFECTANT
  That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.
• DISINFECTOR
  One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.
• AUTO-INFECTION
  Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.
• DISINFECTION
  The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.