Crossword-Solution: VIRUS 5 letters, 98 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Virus	v. i.	Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.
Virus	v. i.	The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there.
Virus	v. i.	Fig.: Any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books.

We have 98 clues for the answer “VIRUS”

Clue	Answers
Download danger	1 answer
High-tech disruption	1 answer
Hacker's infestation	1 answer
Hacker's creation, perhaps	1 answer
Hacker's creation	1 answer
Flu cause	1 answer
Flu bug	1 answer
Evil influence.	1 answer
Email attachment attachment?	1 answer
Ebola, for one	1 answer
E-mail attachment threat	1 answer
Downloading worry	1 answer
High-tech invader	1 answer
Disease germ	1 answer
Computer illness	1 answer
Computer disruption	1 answer
Computer danger	1 answer
Computer crasher	1 answer
Computer "infection"	1 answer
Common winter complaint	1 answer
Common cold cause	1 answer
Chickenpox cause	1 answer
Cause of common ailment.	1 answer
Bug first discovered in 1898	1 answer
MyDoom, for one	1 answer
ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts	1 answer
microorganism that causes disease in humans, animals, and plants	1 answer
Type of disease	1 answer
Too-popular affliction.	1 answer
Submicroscopic infectious agent.	1 answer
Something that poisons.	1 answer
Sketchy download "attachment"	1 answer
POISONOUS matter	1 answer
PC woe	1 answer
PC malware, of a sort	1 answer
Organism in many Robin Cook books	1 answer
CONTAGIOUS matter of disease	1 answer
Mono, e.g.	1 answer
Malware, often	1 answer
Malware product	1 answer
Malware delivery	1 answer
Malicious code	1 answer
It might erase your hard drive	1 answer
It may be written in code	1 answer
Infective particle	1 answer
Infective agent.	1 answer
INFECTIOUS agent	1 answer
Body attacker	1 answer
Bodily or computer Infection	1 answer
Big computer "bug"	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EARTE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with VIRUS (5)

After about twelve hours, the team at Berkeley came up with steps that would help retard the spread of the virus.

Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992

For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program keys; this can be used to write live data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it with a security-breaking {virus} that is triggered the next time a hapless user strikes that key.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Chase had not left his name in the source code of his virus, there would have been no way to track down the culprit.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

CompuServe has the Mac New Users Forum (with a a Virus Clinic section), the McAfee Virus Help Forum, the Symantec AntiVirus Forum, and more.

The Online World Odd de Presno 1993

They cooked their meat before they ate it and they shunned many articles of food as unclean that Tarzan had eaten with gusto all his life and so insidious is the virus of hypocrisy that even the stalwart ape-man hesitated to give rein to his natural longings before them.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995

Quotes with VIRUS (3)

I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

Bill Hicks

Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!

Jennifer O'Neill Soul DNA: Your Spiritual Genetic Code Defines Your Purpose

The talk of sin is of course to many a big turn-off; to others, an even bigger myth - because in reality, sin is like the spiritual equivalent of a microscopic parasite, or a virus, or better yet even, an infectious disease. And just as one might never know of, until visiting a competent doctor, the tiny pathogens progressively eroding one's body, so we might never know that in sin we are eroding our being and losing direction until hearing the Word of God rightfully applied.…

Criss Jami

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 80 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).