Infect
21infect — verb Infect is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑parasite, ↑virus Infect is used with these nouns as the object: ↑lung …
22infect — 01. Don t come close to me; I have a bad cold, and I don t want to [infect] you. 02. Many people who have been [infected] with AIDS got the disease through a blood transfusion. 03. Chicken pox is an [infectious] disease which is usually not too… …
23infect — in•fect [[t]ɪnˈfɛkt[/t]] v. t. 1) to affect or contaminate with disease producing germs 2) to taint or contaminate with any harmful substance: to infect the air with poison gas[/ex] 3) to corrupt or affect morally 4) to imbue with some pernicious …
24infect — /ɪnˈfɛkt / (say in fekt) verb (t) 1. to impregnate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease producing germs. 2. to affect with disease. 3. to impregnate with something that affects quality, character, or condition, especially unfavourably: to… …
25infect — transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Latin infectus, past participle of inficere, from in + facere to make, do more at do Date: 14th century 1. to contaminate with a disease producing substance or agent (as bacteria) 2. a. to… …
26infect — infectant, adj. infectedness, n. infector, infecter, n. /in fekt /, v.t. 1. to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease producing germs. 2. to affect with disease. 3. to taint or contaminate with something that affects… …
27infect — 1. For a microorganism to enter, invade, or inhabit another organism, causing infection or contamination. 2. To dwell internally, endoparasitically, as opposed to externally (infest). [L. in ficio, pp. fectus, to dip into, dye, corrupt, i., fr.… …
28infect — [14] Latin inficere originally meant ‘put in’ – it was a compound verb formed from the prefix in and facere ‘put, do’ (source of English fact, fashion, etc). Its earliest specialized extension was ‘dip in’, which was applied specifically to the… …
29infect — verb affect (a person, organism, etc.) with a disease causing organism. ↘Computing affect with a virus. ↘affect adversely. Derivatives infector noun Origin ME: from L. infect , inficere taint , from in into + facere put, do …
30infect — verb (T) 1 to give someone a disease: People with the virus may feel perfectly well, but they can still infect others. 2 to put something that spreads disease into food, water, the air etc 3 if your excitement, eagerness etc infects other people …
