Definition of infect

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

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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..
Taint :: Taint (v. i.) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
Cleanse :: Cleanse (v. t.) To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean..
Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing..
Malarious :: Malarious (a.) Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria..
Venenate :: Venenate (v. t.) To poison; to infect with poison.
Taint :: Taint (n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation.
Leaven :: Leaven (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
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..
Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating..
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt..
Microorganism :: Microorganism (n.) Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases..
Murrain :: Murrain (n.) An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.
Infect :: 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..
Disinfector :: Disinfector (n.) One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants..
Reinfectious :: Reinfectious (a.) Capable of reinfecting.
Venom :: Venom (n.) To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
Malaria :: Malaria (n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma..
Syphilitic :: Syphilis (n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary..
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