Definition of infect

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Infect (v. t.) 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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Smittlish :: Smittlish (a.) Infectious; catching.
Ichorhaemia :: Ichorhaemia (n.) Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.
Lazar :: Lazar (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
Chloralum :: Chloralum (n.) An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant..
Disinfectant :: Disinfectant (n.) That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine..
Fumigation :: Fumigation (n.) The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection..
Alexipharmic :: Alexipharmic (n.) An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.
Avignon Berry :: Avignon berry () The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry..
Disinfecting :: Disinfecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinfec.
Microorganism :: Microorganism (n.) Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases..
Venom :: Venom (n.) To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed..
Pathogene :: Pathogene (n.) One of a class of virulent microorganisms or bacteria found in the tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; -- opposed to zymogene..
Infectiousness :: Infectiousness (n.) The quality of being infectious.
Taint :: Taint (n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation.
Sing :: Sing (v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt..
Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air..
Impest :: Impest (v. t.) To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague..
Reinfect :: Reinfect (v. t.) To infect again.
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