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infect

(/I/n'f/E/kt )

communicate a disease to(verb.body)

Example:
Your children have infected you with this head cold.

source: wordnet30
contaminate with a disease or microorganism(verb.body)

Synonym:
taint
Antonym:
disinfect

source: wordnet30
corrupt with ideas or an ideology(verb.social)

Example:
Society was infected by racism.

source: wordnet30
affect in a contagious way(verb.cognition)

Example:
His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room.

source: wordnet30
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.(verb)

source: webster1913

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