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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | communicable |
| Synonyms: | catching, deadly, endemic, epidemic, epizootic, impartible, infectious, inoculable, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, spreading, taking, transmissible, transmittable |
| Notes: | diseases spread by contact are contagious and those spread by air or water are infectious |
| Antonyms: | noncommunicable |
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