Definition of infect

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Infect (v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague..

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Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing..
Taking :: Taking (n.) Malign influence; infection.
Disinfecting :: Disinfecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinfec.
Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices..
Smittle :: Smittle (n.) Infection.
Infection :: Infection (n.) Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.
Taking :: Taking (a.) Infectious; contageous.
Infection :: Infection (n.) Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication..
Infectiously :: Infectiously (adv.) In an infectious manner.
Disinfector :: Disinfector (n.) One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants..
Disinfectant :: Disinfectant (n.) That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine..
Chlorine :: Chlorine (n.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4..
Sing :: Sing (v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
Alexipharmic :: Alexipharmic (n.) An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.
Bacterium :: Bacterium (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus
Microorganism :: Microorganism (n.) Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases..
Infection :: Infection (n.) That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused..
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..
Smittle :: Smittle (v. t.) To infect.
Lazar :: Lazar (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
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