INFECT


Meaning of INFECT in English

■ verb affect (a person, organism, etc.) with a disease-causing organism.

↘ Computing affect with a virus.

↘affect adversely.

Derivatives

~or noun

Origin

ME: from L. ~- , inficere 'taint', from in- 'into' + facere 'put, do'.

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