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infect English

Meaning infect meaning

What does infect mean?
Definitions in simple English

infect Verb

— When someone is infected by something, they come into contact with something that causes sickness. Don't go too near him, or he will infect you with his illness.

infect

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

Synonyms infect synonyms

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infect English » English

contaminate taint transmit pollute infected catch be contagious spread disease foul trap transfer touch swell stick spread news spread spoil propagation prehend poison pass on make ill kill join infestation infection impart hitch hit hang up grip grasp grab examine defile corrupt convey contract contagious communicate come down with cleave claw bog down become infected be infectous be infectious be caught affected by affect

Topics infect topics

What do people use infect to talk about?
Person Healthy Disease

Skin disease
Person Healthy

Cause of disease

Conjugation infect conjugation

How do you conjugate infect?

infect · verb

Examples infect examples

How do I use infect in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Infect the area with cholera.
The virus can easily infect a healthy person.

Movie subtitles

He seems to infect them.
And last, and more dangerous than all of these, her brother is in secret come from France and wants not buzzers to infect his ear with pestilent speeches of his father's death, and he, himself, not hesitates to threaten our own person.
Bring in a few calves, some horses, infect them artificially, then wait and see what happens.
I'm gonna infect you.
But soon the killer sheep began to infect other animals with its startling intelligence.
Do you want to infect us all?
He's going to infect us all, my captain!
Just a little, but it was enough to infect you.
Do you realise how they infect us?
I can infect everybody here with typhus.
Now it will infect others.
Unless it is stopped, it will continue to infect others.
I have chosen 4 messengers of death, Four horsemen of my created apocalypse, Four carriers of the plague who will infect their miserable brethren.
You have brought hate and anger into the vortex to infect us all.
For 10 years, we let snakes bite us, insects sting us, animals maul us, heathens slaughter us, the wine poison us, women infect us, lice eat us, fever rot us.
Please. Don't infect all the other patients!
You do not want to infect well?
Crubb goads on the people infect your house.
He'll be sent to the United States thinking he's on some kind of espionage mission or something, but before he dies, he'll infect thousands who, in turn, will infect thousands more.
But how can they infect all the people training here without them knowing it?
I don't think they'll infect the carriers until just before they're ready to ship them out.
Well, you know, in two days we can infect almost every animal in the area.
Enough to infect an entire army.
How do you plan to infect the subject?
Thou dost infect mine eyes.
Our only hope is to bury the bodies where they cannot infect the rest of mankind.
Don't let your successes infect you with delusions of grandeur.
You have brought hate and anger into the Vortex. to infect us all.
I suppose my department could infect him, some rapidly terminal disease.
You thought it might infect the other dogs with.
These are all the instructions it needs to infect some other organism and to reproduce itself which are the only things that viruses are any good at.
You would infect us all.
You'll infect them.

News and current affairs

Finally, parasites, simple animals that infect us, are already classified as pandemics.
Geographical restriction and specialized transmission mean that in most time periods, most pathogens occur in a small number of host species, often only one, but retain the ability to infect more.
Poverty also renders women powerless to reject unwanted sexual advances from men who may infect them.
But if the goal is merely for the communists to retain their monopoly on power, in both Hong Kong and China, then the rot that has settled into Hong Kong's polity and its economy may begin to infect the mainland.
MUMBAI - In most cities of South Asia, hidden beneath the grime and neglect of extreme poverty, there exists a little Somalia waiting to burst out and infect the body politic.
The best guideline is to not permit disagreements to spill over and complicate or infect the relationship.
Learning how to spot such bubbles and deal with them before they infect entire economies will be a major challenge for the next generation of finance scholars.
In fact, the Christian image of the all-powerful Jew feeds the conspiracy theories that infect the way Muslims regard Jews.
The second worry is that, as NATO and the EU expand, these ugly debates will infect relations within these international bodies.
In Zimbabwe, for example, a woman was recently sentenced for exposing her lover to HIV even though she did not infect him.
Charting these families, mosques, and suburbs reveals networks that look just like disease maps, tracking the spread of a microbe as it travels along routes where it can infect others.
The problems that arise from modeling particles as vanishingly small points infect all advanced areas of physics.
Should Musharraf's government backslide even more on its commitments to restore parliamentary democracy, Pakistan's crisis would not only be exacerbated, but it might begin to infect the wider region.
The Prophet was referring to the prosperous and civilized Yemen. But today disorder and radicalization in Yemen are beginning to infect Saudi Arabia, and thus the safety of the world's largest oil producer.

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