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English to English adjective
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Infected. Cf. Enfect. |  | source: webster1913 verb
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communicate a disease to |  | Example: Your children have infected you with this head cold
source: wordnet30
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contaminate with a disease or microorganism |  | source: wordnet30
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corrupt with ideas or an ideology |  | Example: society was infected by racism
source: wordnet30
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affect in a contagious way |  | Example: His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room
source: wordnet30
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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. |  | source: webster1913
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