infect
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɪnˈfɛkt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛkt
Verb
[edit]infect (third-person singular simple present infects, present participle infecting, simple past and past participle infected)
- (transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
- Not everyone will be infected when an epidemic strikes.
- 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
- Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.
- 2020 February 18, Isabella Kwai, “How a Pharmacy Handles Mask Hoarders and Coronavirus Fears”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-18, Asia Pacific[2]:
- Ms. Tang’s inevitable contact with people who are ill has started to worry her. It did not help when she learned that someone living in a building near her own, in Siu Sai Wan, had been infected by the virus.
- (transitive) To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
- (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
- Her passion for dancing has infected me.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 164:
- Guido, by way of diverting the embarrassment which seemed to infect them all, began to unfasten the packet of letters.
Synonyms
[edit]- (to contaminate): leper (rare)
Antonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
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to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
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Adjective
[edit]infect (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Infected.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], line 187:
- And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]infect (feminine infecte, masculine plural infects, feminine plural infectes)
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: infect
Further reading
[edit]- “infect”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French infect, from Latin infectus.
Adjective
[edit]infect m or n (feminine singular infectă, masculine plural infecți, feminine and neuter plural infecte)
- revolting, disgusting (about smells)
- vile, loathsome (about humans)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | infect | infectă | infecți | infecte | |||
definite | infectul | infecta | infecții | infectele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | infect | infecte | infecți | infecte | |||
definite | infectului | infectei | infecților | infectelor |
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