infect

infect has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• 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.
• v.. contaminate with a disease or microorganism
• v.. communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold"
• v.. affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"
• v.. corrupt with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism"