Dictionary Entry
infect
infect is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Infected. Cf. Enfect. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
Infected. Cf. Enfect.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5transitive verb
To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.
- 6verb
contaminate with a disease or microorganism
Synonyms
- 7verb
communicate a disease to
"Your children have infected you with this head cold"
- 8verb
affect in a contagious way
"His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"
- 9verb
corrupt with ideas or an ideology
"society was infected by racism"
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