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- Dictionaryinfect/ɪnˈfɛkt/
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.
1. (Pathology) to cause infection in; contaminate (an organism, wound, etc) with pathogenic microorganisms. 2. (Pathology) ( also intr) to affect or become affected with a communicable disease.
INFECT meaning: 1. to pass a disease to a person, animal, or plant: 2. If a place, wound, or substance is…. Learn more.
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.
