Definition of infect

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Infect (v. t.) 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..

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Plagueful :: Plagueful (a.) Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations..
Poison :: Poison (n.) To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink..
Alexiteric :: Alexiteric (n.) A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general..
Pox :: Pox (v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis..
Venom :: Venom (n.) To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
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..
Reinfectious :: Reinfectious (a.) Capable of reinfecting.
Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
Taintless :: Taintless (a.) Free from taint or infection; pure.
Infection :: Infection (n.) That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused..
Infected :: Infected (imp. & p. p.) of Infec.
Infection :: Infection (n.) The act or process of infecting.
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..
Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague..
Infecting :: Infecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infec.
Leaven :: Leaven (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
Taint :: Taint (v. i.) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
Ichorhaemia :: Ichorhaemia (n.) Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.
Infection :: Infection (n.) The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.
Fumigation :: Fumigation (n.) The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection..
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