The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.
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To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.
Them that were left alive being infected with this disease.
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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.
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(Law) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.
Syn: To poison; vitiate; pollute; defile.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of infect English)
Usage examples of "infecting".
The CDC plan is basically quite simple: Identify those with smallpox, isolate them to keep them from infecting others, and vaccinate anyone with whom they may have come into contact.
These outbreaks are a grim reminder that we have yet to understand where this virus hides when it is not infecting people and that it remains an ongoing threat, especially in certain parts of central Africa.
DNA structure infecting all Architects and all human beings indiscriminately.
But the virus proved unstable and, by chance, it mutated into a radical DNA structure infecting all Architects and all human beings indiscriminately.
These viruses infected new neurons, which died the same way, in turn infecting others, again and again in a chain of explosive reproduction until whole segments of the brain had been killed.
His father must have known that someday whether in fourteen years or in fourteen generations the virus infecting the Devaki would come to life, and that would be the end of the Devaki.
Besides, the fact that some of these particular individuals may have been immunocompromised does not alter the fact that the bacteria infecting them proved resistant to a wide spectrum of antibiotics, possibly all antibiotics.
He no longer gave a damn about biocontamination, about the dangers of infecting himself.
I lay there, silently instructing myself to stop being silly, and to remember all my own good advice about it not mattering overmuch even if some chance-in-a-million slip in sterile technique did lead to my infecting myself, because the infection would only last a few days, and would be no more troublesome than any everyday cold virus.
Implants had begun to change, infecting millions of minds with the templates of Conjoiner thought.
The sickness swept through the dedicated military crew trapped in the sealed station, infecting virtually everyone aboard so that they were all sick at once.
Thus he could immediately throw himself into the necessary work, without fear of infecting others and without fear for his own personal safety.