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Infect   /ɪnfˈɛkt/   Listen
Infect

verb
(past & past part. infected; pres. part. infecting)
1.
Communicate a disease to.
2.
Contaminate with a disease or microorganism.  Synonym: taint.
3.
Corrupt with ideas or an ideology.
4.
Affect in a contagious way.



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"Infect" Quotes from Famous Books



... worse than the Schiller, perhaps. You see you are in the peristyle immediately. The meerschaum is good for flowers, I fancy, so have no scruple. Why, my dear boy, how pale you are! Be cheered—be cheered. Well, I must go myself, or you will infect me." ...
— Ernest Maltravers, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... strong in the mute faith with which thousands of them lived through the dark trials of slavery, looking unto Christ as their deliverer, still the superstitions and degradations of slavery, its breaking of all home ties and life, could but infect the current religion of the black people. At its best, in multitudes of cases, it is but a form of physical and sensational excitement. The deep work of regenerating the soul and the life, which is the vital need of these people, is not done; it is not even attempted in the vast majority of the negro ...
— The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 4, April 1896 • Various

... him hence; But let his body be vnburied. Let not the earth be chokt or infect What that which Heauens contemnes and ...
— The Spanish Tragedie • Thomas Kyd

... drink pail. Le gouvernement francais couldn't be expected to look out for a little thing like venereal disease among prisoners: didn't it have enough to do curing those soldiers who spent their time on permission trying their best to infect themselves with both gonorrhea and syphilis? Let not the reader suppose I am day-dreaming: let him rather recall that I had had the honour of being a member of Section Sanitaire Vingt-et-Un, which helped evacuate the venereal hospital at Ham, with whose inhabitants ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings

... the reign of George I. The writings even of the most esteemed poets of that period contain passages which now would be accounted to deserve the pillory. Nor was the tone of conversation more pure than that of composition; for the taint of Charles II.'s reign continued to infect society until the present reign [George III.], when, if not more moral, we are at least more decent.'[687] What was the state of the law? The criminal law was simply barbarous. Any theft of more than 40s. was punishable by death. Objects of horror, such as the heads of ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton


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