infect

Fetched 2026-10-31 (live).

Synonyms: inject, invect, insect, infest, inflect, infact, infelt, enfect, infeft

Antonyms: inject, invect, insect, infest, inflect, infact, infelt, enfect, infeft

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Verb

To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
- Not everyone will be infected when an epidemic strikes.
To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
- Her passion for dancing has infected me.
Of a computer virus: to insert its own code into (another executable file).

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