contaminate with a disease or microorganism communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold" affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room" contaminate with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism
contaminate with a disease or microorganism communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold"
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
When people, places, or things are infected by a feeling or influence, it spreads to them. For an instant I was infected by her fear He thought they might infect others with their bourgeois ideas His urge for revenge would never infect her
To infect people, animals, or plants means to cause them to have a disease or illness. A single mosquito can infect a large number of people. people infected with HIV. + infection in·fec·tion plants that are resistant to infection
bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious
To infect a substance or area means to cause it to contain harmful germs or bacteria. The birds infect the milk. a virus which is spread mainly by infected blood. = contaminate
{f} affect with a disease or disease causing germs; corrupt, taint, contaminate; influence