infect (verb)

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• infect — ► VERB 1) affect with a disease causing organism. 2) contaminate; affect adversely. DERIVATIVES infector noun. ORIGIN Latin inficere to taint …   English terms dictionary

• infect — in‧fect [ɪnˈfekt] verb [transitive] COMPUTING if a computer virus (= a program put secretly into your computer ) infects your computer, the programs on the computer stop working properly: • Once write protected, a disk can t be infected by a… …   Financial and business terms

• infect — verb Infect is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑parasite, ↑virus Infect is used with these nouns as the object: ↑lung …   Collocations dictionary

• infect — I verb adulterate, befoul, besmirch, blight, canker, cause illness, contaminare, contaminate, corrupt, debase, defile, dirty, empoison, envenom, foul, harm, impair, make ill, make impure, pervert, poison, pollute, putrefy, render unclean, smirch …   Law dictionary

• infect — 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 …   English new terms dictionary

• infect — 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 …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• infect — verb 1) he didn t want to infect others with his chicken pox Syn: pass infection to, spread disease to, contaminate 2) nitrates were infecting rivers Syn: contaminate, pollute, taint, foul, dirty, blight, damage, ru …   Thesaurus of popular words

• infect — verb 1) they can infect their children Syn: pass infection to, contaminate 2) nitrates were infecting rivers Syn: contaminate, pollute, taint, foul, poison …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• infect — verb a) to bring into contact with a substance that can cause illness (a pathogen) Her passion for dancing has infected me. b) to make somebody enthusiastic about ones own passion Ant: disinfect See Also: infectious …   Wiktionary

• infect — [[t]ɪnfe̱kt[/t]] ♦♦♦ infects, infecting, infected 1) VERB To infect people, animals, or plants means to cause them to have a disease or illness. [V n] A single mosquito can infect a large number of people. [V ed] ...objects used by an infected… …   English dictionary

• infect */ — UK [ɪnˈfekt] / US verb [transitive] Word forms infect : present tense I/you/we/they infect he/she/it infects present participle infecting past tense infected past participle infected 1) a) [often passive] to make someone get a disease, that can… …   English dictionary