INFECT • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Infect

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪnfˈɛkt/ Listen

verb

Infect v. t. (past & past part. infected; pres. part. infecting)

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.

To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague. "Them that were left alive being infected with this disease."

To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious. "Infected Ston's daughters with like heat."

(Law) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.

Synonyms: To poison; vitiate; pollute; defile.

adjective

Infect adj. Infected. Cf. Enfect. (Obs.)

See images of 'Infect'

Etymology of 'Infect'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Infect" Quotes from Famous Books

... not, indeed, infect others with the same cruelty. As it was impossible to avoid the inquiries which the curiosity or tenderness of her relations made after her child, she was obliged to give some account of the measures she had taken; and her mother, the lady Mason, whether in approbation of her design, or to ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes - Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II • Samuel Johnson

... the English system is to infect English social, political, military, and industrial life with social favoritism, and the poison of the infection is only mitigated by the condition that the "favorites" must deserve their selection by the maintenance of a certain standard. This standard was formed a good ...

— The Promise Of American Life • Herbert David Croly

... And as it is with things natural, so it is with things spiritual. If you allow a little leaven of bad feeling to get into your minds towards your fellow Christians or your brother ministers, and permit it to remain there, it will in time infect your whole soul, impair the action of all its faculties, and after alienating you from individuals, separate you first from the Church, and ...

— Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again - A Life Story • Joseph Barker

... esteemed poets of that period contain passages which now would be accounted to deserve the pillory. Nor was the tone of conversation more pure than that of composition; for the taint of Charles II.'s reign continued to infect society until the present reign [George III.], when, if not more moral, we are at least more decent.'[687] What was the state of the law? The criminal law was simply barbarous. Any theft of more than ...

— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

... All animals suffering with infectious diseases are more or less directly a menace to all others. They represent for the time being manufactories of disease germs, and they are giving them off more or less abundantly during the period of disease. They may infect others directly or they may scatter the virus about and the surroundings may become the future ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

More quotes...