smittle
/ˈsmɪt(ə)l
/(also smittal)
adjective Scottish & Northern English
Contagious or infectious: he’s got a cough, and they say it’s smittle...
- I've a theory that fear is smittal.
- Either it's the season of the year or else hiking is proving as smittal as SARS.
- You're not to be feart of the scabs; the doctor assured us they're not smittal.
Origin
Late 16th century: from the dialect verb smit 'to infect, affect by contagion', related to smite.
- resonance fluorescence
- resonance frequency
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- resonance level
- resonance radiation
- resonance Raman
- resonance scattering
- resonance stabilization
- resonancy
- resonant
- resonant cavity
- resonant frequency
- resonantly
- resonant scattering
- resonate
- resonation
- resonator
- resonatory
- resorb
- resorbable
- resorbence
- resorbent
- resorcin
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- resorcinol