Definitions from Wiktionary (infect)
▸ verb: (transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
▸ verb: (transitive) To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Infected.
▸ adjective: (rare, grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing an action not yet completed.
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▸ verb: (transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
▸ verb: (transitive) To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Infected.
▸ adjective: (rare, grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing an action not yet completed.
Similar:
inspire,
taint,
revolutionize,
disease,
affect,
catch,
inoculate,
translate,
give,
inocubate,
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lancet,
equine,
human,
pyrogenic,
pediatric,
staphylococcal,
clinical,
streptococcal,
meaneft,
anti,
chronic
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