infect
in fekt
- v communicate a disease to
Your children have infected you with this head cold - v contaminate with a disease or microorganism
- v corrupt with ideas or an ideology
society was infected by racism - v affect in a contagious way
His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room
- A new headline-grabbing report from the White House claims that swine flu could plausibly infect up to 50% of Americans, causing flu symptoms among some 60 to 120 million of them .
- Much to their surprise, they found that it took less of the viral solution to infect a monkey orally than rectally--6,000 times less.
- Kids in classrooms are major spreaders of infectious disease; they get sick, infect one another, then bring the disease back home.