Definition of infect

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Infect (v. t.) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.

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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..
Taint :: Taint (v. i.) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
Pesthouse :: Pesthouse (n.) A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.
Leaven :: Leaven (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
Microorganism :: Microorganism (n.) Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases..
Smittlish :: Smittlish (a.) Infectious; catching.
Itchy :: Itchy (a.) Infected with the itch, or with an itching sensation..
Infectible :: Infectible (a.) Capable of being infected.
Disinfectant :: Disinfectant (n.) That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine..
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt..
Alexiteric :: Alexiteric (n.) A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general..
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..
Inoculate :: Inoculate (v. t.) To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate..
Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth..
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
Cleanse :: Cleanse (v. t.) To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean..
Sing :: Sing (v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
Pestiduct :: Pestiduct (n.) That which conveys contagion or infection.
Beleper :: Beleper (v. t.) To infect with leprosy.
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) An infecting influence.
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