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单词 infecter
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
in•fect /ɪnˈfɛkt/USA pronunciation   v. [+ object]
  1. to affect with disease-producing germs:The germs had infected his wound.
  2. to affect the morals, opinions, emotions, etc., of others:His courage infected the other soldiers.
See -fec-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
in•fect  (in fekt),USA pronunciation v.t. 
  1. to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
  2. Pathologyto affect with disease.
  3. to taint or contaminate with something that affects quality, character, or condition unfavorably:to infect the air with poison gas.
  4. to corrupt or affect morally:The news of the gold strike infected him with greed.
  5. to imbue with some pernicious belief, opinion, etc.
  6. Computingto affect with a computer virus.
  7. to affect so as to influence feeling or action:His courage infected the others.
  8. Lawto taint with illegality, or expose to penalty, forfeiture, etc.

v.i. 
  1. to become infected.

adj. 
  1. [Archaic.]infected.
  • 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
  • Middle English infecten 1350–1400
in•fectant, adj. 
in•fected•ness, n. 
in•fector, in•fecter, n. 
    • 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged damage, corrupt.
    • 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged touch, stir, arouse.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
infect /ɪnˈfɛkt/ vb (mainly tr)
  1. to cause infection in; contaminate (an organism, wound, etc) with pathogenic microorganisms
  2. (also intr) to affect or become affected with a communicable disease
  3. to taint, pollute, or contaminate
  4. to affect, esp adversely, as if by contagion
  5. to affect with a computer virus
adj
  1. archaic contaminated or polluted with or as if with a disease; infected
Etymology: 14th Century: from Latin inficere to dip into, stain, from facere to make

inˈfector, inˈfecter n
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