Definition of infect

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

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Murrion :: Murrion (a.) Infected with or killed by murrain.
Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
Taint :: Taint (v. i.) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
Taintless :: Taintless (a.) Free from taint or infection; pure.
Anthrax :: Anthrax (n.) An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever..
Plagueful :: Plagueful (a.) Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations..
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) An infecting influence.
Lazar :: Lazar (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
Infectiousness :: Infectiousness (n.) The quality of being infectious.
Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.
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..
Infection :: Infection (n.) That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles..
Infecting :: Infecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infec.
Bejaundice :: Bejaundice (v. t.) To infect with jaundice.
Disinfected :: Disinfected (imp. & p. p.) of Disinfec.
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..
Reinfect :: Reinfect (v. t.) To infect again.
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..
Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To infect; to affect slightly.
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..
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