vverb.bodycommunicate a disease toExamples:- Your children have infected you with this head cold
Derivationally Related Form:infectioninfective
Hypernyms:give
Inherited Hypernyms:infectgive
Direct Hyponyms:canker
Full Troponyms:canker
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Somebody ---s somebody with something
vverb.bodycontaminate with a disease or microorganismSynset:infect taint
Antonyms:disinfect
Derivationally Related Form:infectiontaintinfective
Hypernyms:contaminate foul pollute
Inherited Hypernyms:infectpollutedirtychange
Direct Hyponyms:smutsuperinfect
Full Troponyms:smutsuperinfect
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody
vverb.socialcorrupt with ideas or an ideologyExamples:- society was infected by racism
Hypernyms:corrupt debase debauch demoralise demoralize deprave misdirect pervert profane subvert vitiate
Inherited Hypernyms:infectcorruptchange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | Something ---s something
vverb.cognitionaffect in a contagious wayExamples:- His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room
Derivationally Related Form:infection
Hypernyms:affect impress move strike
Inherited Hypernyms:infectaffect
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody
adjadj.allcontaining or resulting from disease-causing organismsSynset:septic
Examples:- a septic sore throat
- a septic environment
- septic sewage
Antonyms:antiseptic
Derivationally Related Form:sepsis
Inherited Hypernyms:septic
Similar to:abscessed contaminative dirty pestiferous infectious infective purulent pussy putrefacient putrefactive septicemic
See also:germy unhealthful