- to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- to affect with disease.
- to taint or contaminate with something that affects quality, character, or condition unfavorably: to infect the air with poison gas.
- to corrupt or affect morally: The news of the gold strike infected him with greed.
- to imbue with some pernicious belief, opinion, etc.
- to affect with a computer virus.
- to affect so as to influence feeling or action: His courage infected the others.
- to taint with illegality, or expose to penalty, forfeiture, etc.
- to become infected.
- infected.
- to cause infection in; contaminate (an organism, wound, etc) with pathogenic microorganisms
- to affect or become affected with a communicable disease
- to taint, pollute, or contaminate
- to affect, esp adversely, as if by contagion
- to affect with a computer virus
- to taint with crime or illegality; expose to penalty or subject to forfeiture
- contaminated or polluted with or as if with a disease; infected
