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[ in-fekt ] SHOW IPA
/ ɪnˈfɛkt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used with object) to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
to affect with disease.
to taint or contaminate with something that affects quality, character, or condition unfavorably: to infect the air with poison gas.
to corrupt or affect morally: The news of the gold strike infected him with greed.
to imbue with some pernicious belief, opinion, etc.
to affect with a computer virus.
to affect so as to influence feeling or action: His courage infected the others.
Law . to taint with illegality, or expose to penalty, forfeiture, etc.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used without object) Origin of infect 1350–1400; Middle English infecten <Latin infectus (past participle of inficere to immerse in dye, discolor, taint, poison), equivalent to in- in-2 + -fec-, combining form of facere to do1 , make (see fact) + -tus past participle suffix
SYNONYMS FOR infect 5 damage, corrupt.
6 touch, stir, arouse.
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OTHER WORDS FROM infect in·fect·ant, adjective in·fect·ed·ness, noun in·fec·tor, in·fect·er, noun non·in·fect·ed, adjective
non·in·fect·ing, adjective pre·in·fect, verb (used with object) re·in·fect, verb (used with object) un·in·fect·ed, adjective
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WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH infect 1. afflict, infect , inflict 2. infect , infest, invest Words nearby infect infatuation, infauna, in favor of, in favor with, infeasible, infect , infected abortion, infectee, infection, infection-exhaustion psychosis, infection immunity
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Example sentences from the Web for infect While the bats are infect ed, they shed large quantities of virus that can infect other animals.
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Ebola Reston, it seemed, could infect humans, but never became symptomatic.
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They had to infect the perfectly adequate data with the totally improbable idea of a 400-year-old heirloom elk antler tool.
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But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy.
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Have you wondered how the U.S. managed to infect Iranian computers?
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With our silent, evil thoughts we can infect others; we can transfer our evil purposes to others who execute them.
Fair Haven and Foul Strand | August Strindberg
The boy's awkwardness seems to infect her, too, for a moment.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 | Various
A tubercular woman should not nurse her infant because she will infect it and exhaust herself.
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Perhaps we should read with for 'for,' taking 'take' in the sense of tinge, infect , a sense it often bears.
The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays | Thomas Keightley
And the power of action is dead in me because the desire of life is dead,—unless you are there to infect me with it.
The Shadow of Life | Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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British Dictionary definitions for infect verb (mainly tr) to cause infection in; contaminate (an organism, wound, etc) with pathogenic microorganisms
(also intr) to affect or become affected with a communicable disease
to taint, pollute, or contaminate
to affect, esp adversely, as if by contagion
computing to affect with a computer virus
mainly international law to taint with crime or illegality; expose to penalty or subject to forfeiture
SEE MORE SEE LESS adjective archaic contaminated or polluted with or as if with a disease; infected
Derived forms of infect infector or infecter , noun Word Origin for infect C14: from Latin inficere to dip into, stain, from facere to make
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Words related to infect touch, affect, taint, poison, defile, influence, blight, vitiate, spoil, corrupt, disease
Medical definitions for infect v. To contaminate with a pathogenic microorganism or agent.
To communicate a pathogen or disease to another organism.
To invade and produce infection in an organ or body part.
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