Word
Infect
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
in-fect
Definition
- v. t. - Infected. Cf. Enfect.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To affect with infectious disease; to communicate
infection to; as, infected with the plague.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.
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