Collocations for "virus"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "virus" in context.
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virus
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a computer virus
- think my [computer, laptop] has a virus
- get rid of viruses on your [computer]
- protect your [computer] from viruses
- must have gotten a (computer) virus [somehow, from somewhere]
- the [download, file] contained a virus
- downloaded a virus from
- [slowed, bogged] down with viruses
- a [contagious, deadly, fatal] virus
- the hepatitis [A] virus
- [contain, eliminate, prevent, create] a virus
- protect yourself from viruses
- [got, caught, came down with] a virus
- [got] some [kind, sort] of virus
- the virus has [spread to, affected, attacked, infected]
- [weakened, killed, decimated] by a virus
- a virus in [birds, animals, pets, humans]
- the virus crossed over to humans
- [find, determine] the [source, origin] of the virus
- the [evolution, spread, containment] of the virus
- viruses and [fungi, bacteria]
- use viruses to deliver gene therapy
'virus' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
airborne
- architecture
- bird
- borne
- carrier
- check
- computer
- contain
- contract
- crop
- deadly
- duration
- engineer
- exploits
- hack
- highly
- host
- isolate
- isolation
- kill
- killer
- livestock
- measles
- mimic
- mumps
- protect
- rage
- resistance
- scan
- server
- system
- tissue
- tummy