INFECT


Meaning of INFECT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnfekt ]

( infects, infecting, infected)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

To infect people, animals, or plants means to cause them to have a disease or illness.

A single mosquito can infect a large number of people.

...people infected with HIV.

VERB : V n , V-ed , also V n with n

• in‧fec‧tion

...plants that are resistant to infection.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

To infect a substance or area means to cause it to contain harmful germs or bacteria.

The birds infect the milk.

...a virus which is spread mainly by infected blood.

= contaminate

VERB : V n , V-ed

3.

When people, places, or things are infected by a feeling or influence, it spreads to them.

For an instant I was infected by her fear...

He thought they might infect others with their bourgeois ideas...

His urge for revenge would never infect her.

VERB : be V-ed by n , V n with n , V n

4.

If a virus infects a computer, it affects the computer by damaging or destroying programs. ( COMPUTING )

This virus infected thousands of computers within days.

VERB : V n

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