Definitions for infect

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infect in·fect

Spelling: [in-fekt]

IPA: /ɪnˈfɛkt/

Infect is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in infect (cefint).

Definitions for infect

adjective

1. Archaic. infected.

verb (used with object)

1. to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
2. to affect with disease.
3. to taint or contaminate with something that affects quality, character, or condition unfavorably:
4. to corrupt or affect morally:
5. to imbue with some pernicious belief, opinion, etc.
6. to affect with a computer virus.
7. to affect so as to influence feeling or action:
8. Law. to taint with illegality, or expose to penalty, forfeiture, etc.

verb (used without object)

1. to become infected.

Origin of infect

1350-1400; Middle English infecten Latin infectus (past participle of inficere to immerse in dye, discolor, taint, poison), equivalent to in- in-² + -fec-, c

Examples for infect

They had to infect the perfectly adequate data with the totally improbable idea of a 400-year-old heirloom elk antler tool.

Throw me on a dunghill, and let me rot there, to infect the air!'

But you have no right to infect Bonaday, here, with your poison.

But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy.

They are easily caught by panic, lose their heads and infect all the others.

The nurse should be particularly careful not to infect herself.

While the bats are infected, they shed large quantities of virus that can infect other animals.

Stand clear of rashness, and have nothing of insincerity or self-love to infect you.

Ebola Reston, it seemed, could infect humans, but never became symptomatic.

Have you wondered how the U.S. managed to infect Iranian computers?