Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, having the nature of, or affected by sepsis.
- adj. Causing sepsis; putrefactive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to sepsis in general; putrefactive or putrefying; septical: opposed to antiseptic.
- n. A substance which causes sepsis.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to sepsis.
- adj. Causing sepsis or putrefaction.
- adj. Of or pertaining to sewage or the disposal of sewage.
- n. A substance that causes sepsis or putrefaction.
- n. A septic tank; a system for the disposal of sewage into a septic tank, a septic system.
- n. mathematics A mathematical object (function, curve, surface, etc.) of degree seven.
- n. UK, Australia, New Zealand, rhyming slang An American, a Yank.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Math.) Of the seventh degree or order.
- adj. Having power to promote putrefaction.
- n. A substance that promotes putrefaction.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or caused by putrefaction
- adj. containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
Etymologies
- Short form of Cockney rhyming slang septic tank ("Yank"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin sēpticus, putrefying, from Greek sēptikos, from sēptos, rotten, from sēpein, to make rotten. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The doctors explained that my husband was septic from the bacteria which had invaded his blood system.”
“Looking for ground north to buy but need to buy at least 3 acres or more to get permit to put in septic tank legally.”
“The proper operation of the septic is essential to health, property value, and the ecology.”
“Brian Clapper, the occupant of the camper, has been staying there, though he says the camper's septic is completely self-contained.”
“So I called the septic company, he told me I was looking for about a 20″x20″ cap, about 1′ down.”
“Thursday morning I called the septic company and explained my dilemma.”
“In some cases, the patient can go into severe sepsis, called septic shock, and as many as half die.”
“At an age when Ruth should be thriving, she has already developed heart disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, high blood pressure, a peptic ulcer, fibromyalgia, and recurring urinary tract infections, one of which led to a long stay in the ICU due to something called septic shock after the infection invaded her bloodstream.”
“If this systemic infection goes unchecked, it leads to a condition known as septic shock, resulting in hypotension, or extremely low blood pressure; dysregulation of blood sugar; and the failure of such multiple organ systems as the heart, kidney, liver, and lungs.”
“I remember getting introduced to something called septic abortion.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘septic’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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EN - confusables
Similar words meaning different things
accept, except, adverse, averse, advice, advise, affect, effect, aisle, isle, all together, altogether and 134 more...
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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ept
kept, wept, adept, inept, depth, scepter, exception, reception, perception, preconception, conception, inception and 74 more...
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Shadowkeir's list
This list, the one shown below this very message, is a collection of words that you cannot begin to fathom how much I adore. The list will also feature atithesis and contrasting words such as the t...
wishful, anticlimactic, forte, monchromatic, septic, wonderous, isoclinal, deformed, disintergrate, favourite, laughable, awe-inspiring and 250 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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Zoological Terms
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papilionaceous, actinost, gressorial, exuviate, nitid, trochal, demiss, loculus, crebrity, limes, pachytrichous, pachydactyl and 319 more...
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Botanical Terms
Terms used in botany
contabescence, effloresce, foliate, acervate, nuciform, feracious, fructuous, bifarious, serotinous, sative, demiss, tardive and 168 more...
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ginnylev's Words
neuroplasticity, repudiate, scintilla, ruminate, tautology, ombudsman, exigent, filibuster, grace, ambidextrous, amends, disclosure and 623 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Ecological Terms
Ecological terms
friable, septic, putrefactive, putrefaction, putrid, putridity, putrescence, sepsis, flatulate, flatulence, eructation, folium and 2 more...
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adjectives
veritable, pejorative, pertinent, benign, gullible, specious, delinquent, evocative, delirious, snippy, pithy, lenient and 69 more...
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Disgusting words
crotch, gangrene, pustule, scab, pus, halitosis, earwax, scrotum, morgellon's, bedsore, corpse, septic and 1 more...
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