| English noun: venereal infection | 
| 1. | venereal infection (state) a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact | 
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 | Synonyms | Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, dose, sexually transmitted disease, social disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, Venus's curse | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | contagion, contagious disease | 
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 | Narrower (hyponym) | chlamydia, clap, genital herpes, gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, herpes genitalis, LGV, lues, lues venerea, lymphogranuloma venereum, lymphopathia venereum, pox, syph, syphilis | 
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