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Definition of: contagious
(kən·tā′jəs) adjective
1. Transmissible by contact, as a disease, or by sympathy, as emotions.
2. Catching; spreading.
3. Transmitting disease; pestilential.
—con·ta′gious·ly adverb
—con·ta′gious·ness noun
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