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v. To contaminate with a pathogenic microorganism or agent.

v. To communicate a pathogen or disease to.

v. To invade and produce infection in.

v. To contaminate or corrupt: envy that infected their thoughts; a society that was infected by racism.

v. To affect in a contagious way: "His fear infected me, and . . . I followed as fast as I could” ( W.H. Hudson).

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

v. to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion

adj. Infected. Cf. enfect.

v. To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced

v. To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to.

v. 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.

v. To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.

To affect as with something infused or instilled; imbue; impregnate; permeate: used especially of that which is bad or hurtful, but sometimes also of that which is good or indifferent.

Specifically To taint with disease or the seeds of disease, either physical or moral: as, to infect a person with smallpox; literature infected with immorality.

In law, to taint or contaminate with illegality, or expose to penalty, seizure, or forfeiture.

Synonyms To poison, pollute, defile.

Infected; tainted; affected unfavorably.

Contaminated with illegality; having a flaw in the title.

Marred; discolored; darkened.

In philology, to affect the quality of a sound in a following or preceding syllable: used especially in reference to the influence of prominent vowels, and phonetic changes, in the Celtic language.

v. affect in a contagious way

v. communicate a disease to

v. corrupt with ideas or an ideology

v. contaminate with a disease or microorganism

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disinfect   

infected    infecting    infectively    infects   

strike    impress    affect    move    profane    demoralise    misdirect    deprave    vitiate    debase   

infectious   

enfect   

infection   

corrupt    contaminate    disease   

Brecht    Hecht    Select    affect    bedecked    checked    collect    confect    connect    correct   

newly-hatched    disease-carrying    pin-size    well-ripened    sandlot    all-night-roasted    parasitoid    caddis    honey-sweet    sweet-and-sour