'Infect' definitions:
Definition of 'infect'
(from WordNet)
verb
Communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold"
verb
verb
Corrupt with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism"
verb
Affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"
Definition of 'Infect'
From: GCIDE
- Infect \In*fect"\, a. [L. infectus: cf. F. infect. See Infect, v. t.] Infected. Cf. Enfect. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Infect'
From: GCIDE
- Infect \In*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infected; p. pr. & vb. n. Infecting.] [L. infectus, p. p. of inficere to put or dip into, to stain, infect; pref. in- in + facere to make; cf. F. infecter. See Fact.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague. [1913 Webster]
- Them that were left alive being infected with this disease. --Sir T. North. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Infected Ston's daughters with like heat. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.
- Syn: To poison; vitiate; pollute; defile. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infect'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- activate,
- adulterate,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- alloy,
- animate,
- befoul,
- benasty,
- bewitch,
- blight,
- canker,
- charge,
- cheapen,
- coarsen,
- condemn,
- confound,
- contaminate,
- corrupt,
- crucify,
- curse,
- damage,
- debase,
- debauch,
- defile,
- deflower,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- denature,
- deprave,
- desecrate,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- devalue,
- disadvantage,
- disease,
- disserve,
- distort,
- distress,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doom,
- embue,
- enliven,
- envenom,
- exhilarate,
- fire,
- foul,
- get into trouble,
- harass,
- harm,
- hex,
- hurt,
- imbue,
- impair,
- inform,
- infuse,
- inject,
- injure,
- inoculate,
- inspire,
- inspirit,
- irradiate,
- jinx,
- maltreat,
- menace,
- mess,
- mess up,
- mistreat,
- misuse,
- molest,
- nasty,
- outrage,
- persecute,
- pervert,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- prejudice,
- prostitute,
- radiumize,
- ravage,
- ravish,
- savage,
- scathe,
- spirit,
- spirit up,
- sully,
- taint,
- tarnish,
- threaten,
- torment,
- torture,
- twist,
- ulcerate,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- vulgarize,
- warp,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrong
Words containing 'Infect'
- Infected,
- Infecter,
- Infectible,
- Infecting,
- Infection,
- Infective,
- cross infection,
- eye infection,
- focal infection,
- fungal infection,
- highly infective,
- infective agent,
- locus of infection,
- nonsocial infection,
- opportunistic infection,
- protozoal infection,
- respiratory infection,
- risk of infection,
- staphylococcal infection,
- tapeworm infection,
- throat infection,
- venereal infection,
- vincent's infection,
- viral infection,
- virus infection,
- lower respiratory infection,
- respiratory tract infection,
- upper respiratory infection,
- urinary tract infection,
- case-to-infection proportion,
- case-to-infection ratio