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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Infect :: 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..
Reinfectious :: Reinfectious (a.) Capable of reinfecting.
Pestiferous :: Pestiferous (a.) Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies..
Pesthouse :: Pesthouse (n.) A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.
Murrain :: Murrain (n.) An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.
Disinfect :: Disinfect (v. t.) To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.
Frenchify :: Frenchify (v. t.) To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
Infecter :: Infecter (n.) One who, or that which, infects..
Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire..
Reinfect :: Reinfect (v. t.) To infect again.
Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To infect; to affect slightly.
Beleper :: Beleper (v. t.) To infect with leprosy.
Mumps :: Mumps (n.) A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.
Catch :: Catch (v. i.) To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate..
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..
Infected :: Infected (imp. & p. p.) of Infec.
Impest :: Impest (v. t.) To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague..
Plagueful :: Plagueful (a.) Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations..
Pestiduct :: Pestiduct (n.) That which conveys contagion or infection.
Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague..
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