Both Uses of
communicable
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Nineteen Minutes
- He reached across her-noticing that she nearly lost her balance trying to lean back, as if he had a communicable disease-and pushed the red Emergency button.
Chpt 1communicable = contagious
- Being unpopular was a communicable disease.
Chpt 2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(communicable as in: a communicable disease) of disease: contagious or infectious
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, communicable can mean easily communicated; or capable of being communicated.