English dictionary

infect

/I/n'f/E/kt/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

adjective

communicate a disease to

verb.body

Examples
Your children have infected you with this head cold.

Source: WordNet 3.0
contaminate with a disease or microorganism

verb.body

Synonyms taint

Antonyms disinfect

Source: WordNet 3.0
corrupt with ideas or an ideology

verb.social

Examples
Society was infected by racism.

Source: WordNet 3.0
affect in a contagious way

verb.cognition

Examples
His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room.

Source: WordNet 3.0
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.

verb

Source: webster1913