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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
infect
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be infected with a virus
▪ Thousands of people may already be infected with the virus.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
▪ The motivation of the already infected is altruism, the desire not to infect others.
■ NOUN
aids
▪ She slowly choked to death, a combination of tuberculosis and laryngitis-two of the diseases that infect Aids patients.
animal
▪ When the blisters burst, they release virus particles that infect healthy animals.
▪ No one knows how humans even become infected with the animal virus.
▪ The rate at which infected animals were being killed was accelerating, Prof King said.
▪ This had been cut to 1.5 days or better for infected animals.
▪ To be sure, scientists have created disease by inoculating animals with brain tissue from infected animals.
▪ Before a virus can infect an animal cell it must first bind to specific receptor molecules embedded in the cell membrane.
▪ But the number of infected animals has been declining in recent years.
blood
▪ And he adds that trace levels of plasminogen would have been present in the products made from the infected donor's blood.
cell
▪ After release, viruses remain inactive until they come into contact with and infect another cell.
▪ Viral infectiousness is defined as the ability of a virus to enter and infect a cell in the target host.
▪ They then put the infected cells back into the babies without giving any drug treatment.
▪ The cells destroy infected cells early, before they produce virus, thereby inhibiting viral replication, the company said.
▪ Before a virus can infect an animal cell it must first bind to specific receptor molecules embedded in the cell membrane.
▪ In this case, patients need only be treated until the last of the infected cells is eliminated.
child
▪ Two different live polio vaccines tested then infected children with the disease rather than protected them; some died.
▪ An infected female who becomes pregnant could infect her unborn child.
disease
▪ The result is 50,000 children a year infected with the disease.
▪ Two different live polio vaccines tested then infected children with the disease rather than protected them; some died.
▪ When measured against the suffering of people infected with a lethal disease, this point sounds abstract, even callous.
▪ I enjoy infecting her with my diseases and then paying her doctor bills.
▪ Poppy's mouth had infected me with a disease of wanting and that was all I knew.
▪ At the beginning of an epidemic only a few individuals are infected, so the disease spreads fairly slowly.
man
▪ It has been estimated that in the early eighties the average infected gay man infected an average of five additional gay men.
▪ What went largely unreported, however, was the fact that most of the people getting infected were gay men.
▪ The profile of this population was generally quite different from that of infected homosexual men.
million
▪ Subtype E already has infected at least 15 million heterosexual men, women and children.
partner
▪ Partner A may infect partner B, but things will end there.
patient
▪ Perrin determined that all of the infected patients had received injections while in hospital in Benghazi.
▪ She slowly choked to death, a combination of tuberculosis and laryngitis-two of the diseases that infect Aids patients.
▪ Thus, only 23 of the 50 co-infected patients were included.
people
▪ These can get into food or water, especially in countries with poor sanitary facilities, and thus infect other people.
▪ Few recently infected people have received the experimental drug mixes, Volberding said.
▪ Tom has infected at least 6 people - thought he has never even met Jane, Mark and Alan.
person
▪ During that interim, the infected person would not yet have enough antibodies for the test to register.
▪ This can happen with sexually transmitted diseases only if the average infected person infects more than one other person.
▪ From 1985 through 1992, 297 infected persons were identified in 27 states.
tuberculosis
▪ Two of the four specimens known to be infected with M tuberculosis were positive in the controlled experiment.
virus
▪ When the blisters burst, they release virus particles that infect healthy animals.
▪ Viral infectiousness is defined as the ability of a virus to enter and infect a cell in the target host.
▪ A macro virus spreads by infecting Microsoft Word or Excel documents.
▪ They said there needed to be more research done, especially on people recently infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.
▪ An acupuncturist at the clinic was found to be carrying the virus, which infects the liver.
▪ In 1988, the virus had infected one out of every sixty-one babies born in New York State.
▪ Before a virus can infect an animal cell it must first bind to specific receptor molecules embedded in the cell membrane.
woman
▪ The third method is maternal transmission between an infected and pregnant woman and her unborn child.
■ VERB
become
▪ Every day, 14,000 more become infected.
▪ Among blacks in the sample, 14.7 percent were becoming infected each year.
▪ Itching can be intense, and there may be a visible rash, which can become secondarily infected by bacteria.
▪ So, it might still be possible for these people to become infected.
▪ Dennis was 23 when the 300-acre farm-a family home for two centuries-#became infected in 1967.
▪ Mink tissue also would be prohibited from feed because minks also can become infected.
▪ No one knows how humans even become infected with the animal virus.
▪ They also can attack a healthy person who might become infected through a foot wound, for example.
spread
▪ A macro virus spreads by infecting Microsoft Word or Excel documents.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The book may infect you with a passion for mountain climbing.
▪ The fruits were infected by a fungus disease called brown rot.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infect

Infect \In*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infected; p. pr. & vb. n. Infecting.] [L. infectus, p. p. of inficere to put or dip into, to stain, infect; pref. in- in + facere to make; cf. F. infecter. See Fact.]

  1. 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.

  2. To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.

    Them that were left alive being infected with this disease.
    --Sir T. North.

  3. 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.
    --Cowper.

    Infected Ston's daughters with like heat.
    --Milton.

  4. (Law) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.

    Syn: To poison; vitiate; pollute; defile.

Infect

Infect \In*fect"\, a. [L. infectus: cf. F. infect. See Infect, v. t.] Infected. Cf. Enfect. [Obs.]
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
infect

late 14c., from Latin infectus, past participle of inficere "to spoil, stain," literally "to put in to, dip into," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + facere "perform" (see factitious). Related: Infected; infecting.

Wiktionary
infect

  1. (context obsolete English) Infected. v

  2. (context transitive English) To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).

Related phrases:
WordNet
infect

  1. v. communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold"

  2. contaminate with a disease or microorganism [syn: taint] [ant: disinfect]

  3. contaminate with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism"

  4. affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"

Usage examples of "infect".

She stated the only reason she went to the doctor was due to the abrasions on her knee getting infected.

And who cared about werewolves infecting the unwary so long as you could get a good manicure or acupuncture treatment?

Ganges to the Straits of Gibraltar, that they had no leisure for theological controversy: and though the Alcoran, the original monument of their faith, seems to contain some violent precepts, they were much less infected with the spirit of bigotry and persecution than the indolent and speculative Greeks, who were continually refining on the several articles of their religious system.

We are doing everything in our power to preserve the safety of domestic bees in apiaries in the infected areas.

Unlike Ebola, though, there have been reports of airborne transmission of two of the arenaviruses, so wearing protective clothing, especially an N95 respirator mask, is essential when around infected patients or patients suspected of having the infection.

Keeping pants tucked into socks, taking Atabrine tablets at mealtime, and spraying the island with DDT were all measures taken to help prevent the troops from getting infected.

This, as with barbiturates, is extremely dangerous when taken, if the user is infected or impaired.

The dye from his stocking infected the scratch and, bedad, his leg had to be sawed off.

Their whole life is bemired with vice, and their mouth articulates no other words than prudence and virtue, like those corrupt and infected doctors who have no indulgence for their patients.

Yet I shall not easily be persuaded, that it was the common practice of the Vandals to extirpate the olives, and other fruit trees, of a country where they intended to settle: nor can I believe that it was a usual stratagem to slaughter great numbers of their prisoners before the walls of a besieged city, for the sole purpose of infecting the air, and producing a pestilence, of which they themselves must have been the first victims.

Worlag ichor had infected the wound, and the biceps were twice the size they should be.

Worms, viruses, and Trojan horses would be their gifts to Grandmother, and they would leave explosive blocks, borers, and scramblers to infect the remaining data.

Every one suddenly appeared extremely busy, and kept as far from Boule de Suif as if tier skirts had been infected with some deadly disease.

I would say I had ringworm and Doctor Byk would not let me come in case I infected the other boys.

Bald and infected, quiet and cachectic, he was getting his life in order.