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verb
- 1. affect (a person, organism, etc.) with a disease-causing organism: "pregnant women who may have been infected with the virus" Similar
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INFECT definition: 1. to pass a disease to a person, animal, or plant: 2. If a place, wound, or substance is…. Learn more.
The meaning of INFECT is to contaminate with a disease-producing substance or agent (such as bacteria). How to use infect in a sentence.
verb. to cause infection in; contaminate (an organism, wound, etc) with pathogenic microorganisms. also intr to affect or become affected with a communicable disease. to taint, pollute, or contaminate. to affect, esp adversely, as if by contagion. computing to affect with a computer virus.
To infect people, animals, or plants means to cause them to have a disease or illness.
verb. /ɪnˈfekt/ Verb Forms. to make a disease or an illness spread to a person, an animal or a plant. infect somebody/something (with something) It is not possible to infect another person through kissing. (be) infected with something people infected with the virus. Topics Health problems c1. Take your English to the next level.
To infect is to spread an illness to another person. If you sneeze on your friend, you may inadvertently infect her with your germs. When a disease moves from person to person, it infects them.
INFECT definition: 1. to give someone a disease: 2. If a place, wound, or substance is infected, it contains bacteria…. Learn more.