Infect Meaning in Spanish

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1. (v. t.) To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious.
2. (v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.
3. (v. t.) To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment.
4. (v. t.) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.
5. (v. t.) Infected. Cf. Enfect.

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Infect

1. (n.) One who, or that which, infects.

1. (a.) Capable of being infected.

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infect

1. (n.) The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.
2. (n.) That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.
3. (n.) The act or process of infecting.
4. (n.) Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.
5. (n.) That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.
6. (n.) Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.

1. (a.) Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
2. (a.) Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
3. (a.) Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
4. (a.) Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.

1. () Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in the air or water, and thus spread without contact with the patient, as measles.
2. () Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious.

1. (adv.) In an infectious manner.