vt, -fied  -fy*ing  :  to report the occurrence of (a communicable disease or an individual suffering from such disease) in a community to public-health or other authority < any cow which … appears to be affected with tuberculosis -Control of Certain Diseases of Dairy Cows>  .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  NADPH  na·tive 
 
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