infect

verbs

communicate a disease to
"Your children have infected you with this head cold"
infect
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infective
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infective
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infection
is a type of (narrower)
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
"She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold"
give
contaminate with a disease or microorganism
infect, taint
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infective
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infective
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infection
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infection
antonym
disinfect
corrupt with ideas or an ideology
"society was infected by racism"
infect
is a type of (narrower)
corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
"debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate
affect in a contagious way
"His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"
infect
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infection
is a type of (narrower)
have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
"This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
affect, impress, move, strike