Infect \In*fect"\, a. [L. infectus: cf. F. infect. See Infect,
v. t.]
Infected. Cf. Enfect. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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.]
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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.
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2. To affect with infectious disease; to communicate
infection to; as, infected with the plague.
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Them that were left alive being infected with this
disease. --Sir T.
North.
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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.
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Infected Ston's daughters with like heat. --Milton.
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4. (Law) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to
penalty.
Syn: To poison; vitiate; pollute; defile.
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infect
v 1: communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you
with this head cold"
2: contaminate with a disease or microorganism [syn: taint]
[ant: disinfect]
3: contaminate with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected
by racism"
4: affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone
who is in the same room"
WordNet (r) 2.0
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "infect":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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