Synonyms for VIRUS
ˈvaɪ rəsvirus

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1. virusnoun

   (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein

   Synonyms:
   computer virus

2. virusnoun

   a harmful or corrupting agency

   "bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread"; "the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone"

   Synonyms:
   computer virus

3. virus, computer virusnoun

   a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer

   "a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance"

   Synonyms:
   virus, computer virus

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1. • Agency
   • Infectious Agent
   • Malevolent Program
   • Microorganism

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1. virusnoun

   Synonyms:
   poison (of a morbid nature), VENOM

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1. List of paraphrases for "virus":

   viruses, viral, hiv, antivirus, anti-virus, t-virus

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1. Erin Bromage:

   It's worse in regards to energy, but the more outside air we bring in, the more dilution of the virus we have and then the safer you are, how to safely avoid sunburn in the age of coronavirus.

2. Anthony Fauci:

   We are already in a Delta surge. I mean, the cases are going up, and then you have, looking over your shoulder, the Omicron variant, which we know from what's going on in South Africa and in the UK, is a highly transmissible virus.

3. Manu Shankar-Hari:

   It is biologically plausible that patients who are not producing antibodies at the time of convalescent plasma therapy and those patients with excess virus may benefit more than others. Our additional analyses will explore this.

4. Alex Azar:

   But thanks to President Trump's historically aggressive containment efforts, we've actually contained the spread of this virus here in the United States at this point, i think part of the message to the American people is we all need to take a bit of deep breath here.

5. Chuan Qin:

   No viral load was detected in these main tissues on [day five] after the monkey was exposed to the same dose of virus again, so, we think the coronavirus did not survive for a long time in the body.