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

1. transitive verb. Infected. Cf. Enfect.
2. transitive 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.
3. transitive verb. To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.
4. transitive 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.
5. transitive verb. To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.
6. verb. contaminate with a disease or microorganism

   Synonyms: taint

7. verb. communicate a disease to

   "Your children have infected you with this head cold"

8. verb. affect in a contagious way

   "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"

9. verb. corrupt with ideas or an ideology

   "society was infected by racism"

Synonyms

taint

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in infect:

ceftin

Common word forms

infects, infected, infecter, infecting

Words from these letters

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