Word Meanings - PLAGUEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.

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• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• INFECTIVE
  Infectious. Beau. & Fl. True love . . . hath an infective power. Sir P. Sidney.
• 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
• ABOUND
  1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
• 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
• PESTILENTIALLY
  Pestilently.
• PLAGUEFUL
  Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.
• PESTILENTIAL
  1. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. "Sends the pestilential vapors." Longfellow. 2. Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin. Jer. Taylor.
• 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.
• INFECT
  Infected. Cf. Enfect. Shak.
• INFECTIBLE
  Capable of being infected.
• INFECTER
  One who, or that which, infects.
• REINFECT
  To infect again.
• 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.
• OVERABOUND
  To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.
• DISINFECTION
  The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.
• SUPERABOUND
  To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.
• SEABOUND
  Bounded by the sea.