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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Leprous :: Leprous (a.) Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy.
Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating..
Stinkpot :: Stinkpot (n.) A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.
Infective :: Infective (a.) Infectious.
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..
Microphyte :: Microphyte (n.) A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be..
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..
Disinfection :: Disinfection (n.) The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.
Impest :: Impest (v. t.) To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague..
Pestiduct :: Pestiduct (n.) That which conveys contagion or infection.
Beleper :: Beleper (v. t.) To infect with leprosy.
Atomizer :: Atomizer (n.) One who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming..
Pox :: Pox (v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis..
Spray :: Spray (v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer..
Sing :: Sing (v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
Plagueful :: Plagueful (a.) Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations..
Miasma :: Miasma (n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.
Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air..
Murrain :: Murrain (n.) An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.
Germicide :: Germicide (a.) Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases..
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