Infect

Related Terms:

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Definitions:

Verb

infect

Definition: communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold"

infect taint

Definition: contaminate with a disease or microorganism

infect

Definition: corrupt with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism"

infect

Definition: affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"

Definition: To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.

Adjective

Definition: Infected.