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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
contagious
con·ta·gious BrE [kənˈteɪdʒəs] NAmE [kənˈteɪdʒəs] adjective 1. a contagious disease spreads by people touching each other •Scarlet fever is highly contagious. • (figurative)His enthusiasm was contagious (= spread quickly to other people). •a contagious laugh 2. not usually before noun if a person is contagious, they have a disease that can be spread to other people by touch compare ↑infectious Derived Word: ↑contagiously Word Origin: [contagious contagiously] late Middle English: from late Latin contagiosus, from contagio, from con- ‘together with’ + the base of tangere ‘to touch’. Example Bank: •The new disease proved contagious.
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