Definitions for infect
ɪnˈfɛktin·fect

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infectverb

   communicate a disease to

   "Your children have infected you with this head cold"

2. infect, taintverb

   contaminate with a disease or microorganism

3. infectverb

   corrupt with ideas or an ideology

   "society was infected by racism"

4. infectverb

   affect in a contagious way

   "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infectverb

   to bring into contact with a substance that can cause illness (a pathogen)

2. infectverb

   to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion

   Her passion for dancing has infected me.

3. Etymology: From infectus, perfect passive participle of inficio.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To INFECTverb

   Etymology: infecter, French; infectus, Latin.

   1. To act upon by contagion; to affect with communicated qualities; to hurt by contagion; to taint; to poison; to pollute.

   They put such words in the mouths of one of those fantastical mind infected people, that children and musicians call lovers. Philip Sidney.

   Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine. William Shakespeare, R. III.

   The nature of bad news, infects the teller. William Shakespeare.

   Ev'ry day
   It would infect his speech, that if the king
   Should without issue die, he'd carry it so
   To make the scepter his. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   Infected minds
   To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. William Shakespeare.

   She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north-star. William Shakespeare.

   I am return'd your soldier;
   No more infected with my country's love,
   Than when I parted hence. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   The love-tale
   Infected Sion's daughters with like heat,
   Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch
   Ezekiel saw. John Milton.

   2. To fill with something hurtfully contagious.

   Infected be the air whereon they ride,
   And damn'd all those that trust them! William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infect

   An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable disease, is an illness resulting from an infection. Infections can be caused by a wide range of pathogens, most prominently bacteria and viruses. Hosts can fight infections using their immune system. Mammalian hosts react to infections with an innate response, often involving inflammation, followed by an adaptive response. Specific medications used to treat infections include antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, antiprotozoals, and antihelminthics. Infectious diseases resulted in 9.2 million deaths in 2013 (about 17% of all deaths). The branch of medicine that focuses on infections is referred to as infectious disease.

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1. infect

   To infect means to contaminate or invade a living organism's body tissues, cells or systems, often resulting in illness or disease. This is typically done by a harmful microorganism such as a bacteria, virus, or fungi. It can also refer to influencing or corrupting someone with undesirable qualities or feelings.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Infectverb

   infected. Cf. Enfect

2. Infectverb

   to taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment

3. Infectverb

   to affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague

4. Infectverb

   to communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious

5. Infectverb

   to contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty

6. Etymology: [L. infectus: cf. F. infect. See Infect, v. t.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Infect

   in-fekt′, v.t. to taint, especially with disease: to corrupt: to poison.—adj. (Shak.) tainted.—n. Infec′tion, act of infecting: that which infects or taints.—adjs. Infec′tious, Infect′ive, having the quality of infecting: corrupting: apt to spread.—adv. Infec′tiously.—n. Infec′tiousness. [Fr.,—L. inficĕre, infectum—in, into facĕre, to make.]

Matched Categories

1. • Affect
   • Contaminate
   • Corrupt
   • Give

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of infect in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of infect in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of infect in a Sentence

1. Agnes Velasquez:

   It is a very serious virus. This virus does not pick and choose who to infect, it could hit you as hard as it hit me. And I don't want anybody to go through what I went through.

2. David Heymann:

   This infection is a predicament for all people of child-bearing age who live in Brazil or who travel to Brazil. And that includes both men and women, women could get infected and come back and become pregnant within three weeks or four weeks, or they could be pregnant when they get there. And men could go there and come back with the infection and infect their sexual partner back home.

3. Olfert Landt:

   The virus must travel, if Olfert Landt reduce Olfert Landt contact to other people, the virus can no longer travel... One infected will infect one or two other people, so it's like an atomic bomb, it's an exponential curve.

4. William Schaffner:

   I think what they're saying is virus number one initiates an inflammatory response which then acts as a barrier to the second virus, i think there are also some data to suggest Vanderbilt University's two viruses can not simultaneously infect the same cell.

5. John Williams:

   Middle East Respiratory Syndrome is extremely deadly, about 30 % of people who are infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome will die, so the virus got over one of the barriers -- it's able to infect humans, grow in them and cause disease -- but thankfully it really doesn't spread well person to person, other than very, very close contacts.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=infect
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Infect
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=infect
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infect
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infect
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=infect