infect
/ɪnˈfɛkt/verb2 syllables
Infect means: contaminate with a disease or microorganism.
Synonyms for infect1
verb, as in contaminate with a disease or microorganism
taint
Opposites of infect
disinfect
What does infect mean?4
verb
1
contaminate with a disease or microorganism
2
communicate a disease to“Your children have infected you with this head cold”
3
corrupt with ideas or an ideology“society was infected by racism”
4
affect in a contagious way“His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with infect?36
two syllables
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Infect in a sentence
- The virus can easily infect a healthy person.unionprof
- You're not going to infect me with an illness that doesn't exist.DJ_Saidez
- Making matters worse, schools often sent the sickest children home to infect families and communities.shekitten
- Studies indicate that the world can expect about five new animal-borne pathogens to infect humans each year.Hybrid
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Forms of infect
as a verb
- past tense
- infected
- present participle
- infecting
- third-person singular
- infects