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"text": "Ms. Tang’s inevitable contact with people who are ill has started to worry her. It did not help when she learned that someone living in a building near her own, in Siu Sai Wan, had been infected by the virus.",
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"ref": "1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 164:",
"text": "Guido, by way of diverting the embarrassment which seemed to infect them all, began to unfasten the packet of letters.",
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"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness",
"word": "nhiễm"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness",
"word": "lây"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness",
"word": "näfätön"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zarazjavam",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "заразявам"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gǎnrǎn",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "感染"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "infecteren"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "tartuttaa"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "infecter"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gadadeba",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "გადადება"
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"code": "ka",
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"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "გადაცემა"
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"code": "ka",
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"roman": "gadasdebs",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "გადასდებს"
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"code": "ka",
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"roman": "gadascems",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "გადასცემს"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "anstecken"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "infizieren"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "megfertőz"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "contagiar"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "contagia"
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"word": "зарази́ть"
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"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "okužiti"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "contagiar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "alborotar"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "smitta"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion",
"word": "lan truyền"
}
],
"word": "infect"
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"ref": "c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], line 187:",
"text": "And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect.",
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