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/ɪnfˈɛktəd/ /ɪnfˈɛktɪd/ 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.

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Etymology of 'Infected'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Infected" Quotes from Famous Books

... thought was: And he's married—what a fate! Her second: If he feels that, perhaps thousands of men do! Am I and all women really what they think us? The conviction in his stare—its through-and-through conviction—had infected her; and she gave in to it for the moment, crushed. Then her spirit revolted with such turbulence, and the blood so throbbed in her, that she could hardly lie still. How dare he think her like that—a nothing, a bundle of soulless inexplicable whims and moods ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... resisting the jolly good-nature of the young man, who had a habit of laughing heartily, when no one else could see anything to laugh at, and whose high spirits always infected others with whom he came in contact. But it would not have required much study for any one to discover that he was a wild, reckless youth, who had probably run away from home, and taken to bad ways from a natural inclination ...

— Adrift on the Pacific • Edward S. Ellis

... she could not go on, with the hurrying of her blood, the scrutiny of his looks, the passion in him which infected her. She waved her hand to him to sit down, to be calm, to listen, but she had no voice ...

— A Country Gentleman and his Family • Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

... rushed along with a speed that appeared by far too great to admit of being safely followed, and yet those who followed appeared infected by his example, and appeared heedless of all consequences by which their pursuit might be attended ...

— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest

... dusky confused violence; holding of Illumination, Animal Magnetism, Public Opinion, Adam Weisshaupt, Harmodius and Aristogiton, and all manner of confused violent things: of whom can come no good. The very Peerage is infected with the leaven. Our Peers have, in too many cases, laid aside their frogs, laces, bagwigs; and go about in English costume, or ride rising in their stirrups,—in the most headlong manner; nothing ...

— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle

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