septic
adjective/ˈseptɪk/
/ˈseptɪk/
- (of a wound or part of the body) containing harmful bacteria that cause infection
- a septic finger
- A dirty cut may go septic.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySeptic is used with these nouns:- tank
Word Originearly 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek sēptikos, from sēpein ‘make rotten’.
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