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1. (v.t.) infect
to affect or contaminate with disease-producing germs.
2. infect
to taint or contaminate with any harmful substance:
to infect the air with poison gas.
3. infect
to corrupt or affect morally.
4. infect
to imbue with some pernicious belief, opinion, etc.
5. infect
to affect so as to imbue with similar feeling:
His courage infected the others.
6. infect
to affect with a computer virus.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < L infectus, ptp. of inficere to immerse in dye, taint, infect)
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| Definition of 'infect' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) infect
communicate a disease to
"Your children have infected you with this head cold"
2. (verb) infect, taint
contaminate with a disease or microorganism
3. (verb) infect
corrupt with ideas or an ideology
"society was infected by racism"
4. (verb) infect
affect in a contagious way
"His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"
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1. (verb) infect
to make a disease spread
a virus infecting thousands of children
2. infect
to cause an infection
bacteria infecting the wound
3. infect
(of a computer virus) to cause damage to a computer system
a virus that infects your hard drive
4. infect
to cause to feel or be affected by an emotion
We were all infected by his humor.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) infect
infected. Cf. Enfect
2. (verb) infect
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. (verb) infect
to affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague
4. (verb) infect
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. (verb) infect
to contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty
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Sense: to fill with germs that cause disease; to give a disease to
You must wash that cut on your knee in case it becomes infected; She had a bad cold last week and has infected the rest of the class.
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 Afrikaans: aansteek, besmet |
 Arabic: يُصيب بالعَدوى، يُدْخِل ج |
 Bulgarian: заразявам се |
 Brazilian: infectar |
 Czech: nakazit |
 German: infizieren |
 Danish: inficere; smitte |
 Greek: μολύνω, κολλώ |
 Spanish: infectar |
 Estonian: nakkama, nakatuma |
 Farsi: آلوده کردن؛ چرک کردن |
 Finnish: tartuttaa |
 French: infecter |
 Hebrew: לַהדבִיק |
 Hindi: छूत लगाना |
 Croatian: zaraziti |
 Hungarian: (meg)fertőz |
 Indonesian: menjangkiti, menulari |
 Icelandic: smita |
 Italian: infettare, contagiare |
 Japanese: 病気をうつす |
 Korean: 감염되다 |
 Lithuanian: užkrėsti |
 Latvian: inficēt; aplipināt |
 Malay: menjangkiti |
 Dutch: besmetten |
 Norwegian: smitte, påføre (en sykdom |
 Polish: zakazić, zarazić |
 Persian: آلوده کردن؛ چرک کردن |
 Pashto: کسیف کول |
 Portuguese: infectar |
 Romanian: a infecta |
 Russian: заражать |
 Slovak: nakaziť |
 Slovenian: okužiti |
 Serbian: zaraziti |
 Swedish: infektera, smitta [ner] |
 Thai: ทำให้ติดเชื้อ |
 Turkish: bulaştırmak, geçirmek |
 Taiwanese: 感染, 傳染 |
 Ukrainian: заражати |
 Urdu: جراثیم زدہ کرنا |
 Vietnamese: lây nhiễm |
 Chinese: 感染，传染 |
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