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Definitions for Infect

[1] to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
[2] to affect with disease.
[3] to taint or contaminate with something that affects quality, character, or condition unfavorably: to infect the air with poison gas.
[4] to corrupt or affect morally: The news of the gold strike infected him with greed.
[5] to imbue with some pernicious belief, opinion, etc.
[6] to affect with a computer virus.
[7] to affect so as to influence feeling or action: His courage infected the others.
[8] Law . to taint with illegality, or expose to penalty, forfeiture, etc.
[9] to become infected.
[10] Archaic . infected.
[11] to cause infection in; contaminate (an organism, wound, etc) with pathogenic microorganisms
[12] (also intr) to affect or become affected with a communicable disease
[13] to taint, pollute, or contaminate
[14] to affect, esp adversely, as if by contagion
[15] computing to affect with a computer virus
[16] mainly international law to taint with crime or illegality; expose to penalty or subject to forfeiture
[17] archaic contaminated or polluted with or as if with a disease; infected

Words related to Infect

touch, affect, taint, poison, defile, influence, blight, vitiate, spoil, corrupt, disease

Words nearby Infect

infatuate, infatuated, infatuation, infauna, infeasible, infect, infected abortion, infectee, infection, infection immunity, infection-exhaustion psychosis

Origin of Infect

1350–1400; Middle English infecten < Latin infectus (past participle of inficere to immerse in dye, discolor, taint, poison), equivalent to in- in-2 + -fec-, combining form of facere to do1, make (see fact) + -tus past participle suffix

Words that may be confused with Infect

afflict, infect, inflict, infect, infest, invest

Other words from Infect

in·fect·ant , adjective
in·fect·ed·ness , noun
in·fec·tor , in·fect·er , noun
non·in·fect·ed , adjective
non·in·fect·ing , adjective
pre·in·fect , verb (used with object)
re·in·fect , verb (used with object)
un·in·fect·ed , adjective

Word origin for Infect

C14: from Latin inficere to dip into, stain, from facere to make

Synonyms for Infect

affect, poison, taint, touch, blight, corrupt, defile, influence, spoil, vitiate, disease, spread among, spread to