Synonym: catching, epidemic, infectious, spreading. Similar words: contagion, contentious, litigious, religious, prestigious, contain, contact, container. Meaning: [-dʒəs] adj. 1. easily diffused or spread as from one person to another 2. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection.
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31 For example, recessions and inflations can be highly contagious among nations.
32 Like the contagious diseases defeat, Simon's resignation was received as a serious blow by the medical profession.
33 Moreover, where labour disputes in small enterprises might cause little stir, stoppages in major plants proved highly contagious.
34 Dictators and schoolteachers have tried to control it, fearing its contagious power to undermine authority.
35 He immediately ordered a spinal tap that confirmed polio, and she was moved to the floor for contagious diseases.
36 He was found to be highly contagious and received 37 days of in-patient treatment.
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37 He tore at his blindfold as if it were a contagious body whose disease he might catch.
38 Childhood diseases such as measles and chickenpox are highly contagious.
39 At least 15 million Americans still hold the erroneous view that cancer is contagious.
40 If this flurry of truth in advertising proves contagious, travelers could actually come to love flying again.
41 This was diagnosed as impetigo, an unpleasant and contagious affliction.
42 A little noticed but central character of such vivisystems is that this paradoxical essence is contagious.
43 The mood was contagious, and despite myself I started grinning mindlessly.
44 In the 1860s medical interventions into the contagious diseases debate polarized earlier representations of female sexuality.
45 The highly contagious phrase quickly infected the international media and spread across the globe in a matter of days.
46 Each hospital that took patients with contagious diseases established quarantine periods.
47 Although the evidence was mounting that leprosy was contagious, the view was not unanimously held.
48 Furthermore, there were many differences of opinion regarding the question of just how contagious leprosy was and how it was transmitted.
49 For many patients, acute care came in county or city general hospitals where patients with contagious diseases were sent.
50 Her contagious smile and strong, loving presence have been so important to us over the decades.
51 The purpose of the statute was to lessen the risk of cattle catching a contagious disease while in transit.
52 But as we know, foot and mouth is fairly harmless, though highly contagious.
53 What if the refusal becomes contagious and other students also refuse to salute the flag?
54 There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. Charles Dickens
55 No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton
56 While leprosy is slowly contagious and probably mildly contagious, its usual horrors argue the danger of neglect.
57 The ulcers of chancroid are not contagious.
58 A dangerous contagious disease or other serious illness?
59 Mumps is an acute contagious viral infection.
60 This disease is not contagious [ infectious ] .
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