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/ɪnfˈɛktəd/ /ɪnfˈɛktɪd/ Listen

verb

Infect v. t. (past & past part. infected; pres. part. infecting)

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.

To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague. "Them that were left alive being infected with this disease."

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. "Infected Ston's daughters with like heat."

(Law) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.

Synonyms: To poison; vitiate; pollute; defile.

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"Infected" Quotes from Famous Books

... interposition Mr. Savage once obtained from his mother fifty pounds, and a promise of one hundred and fifty more; but it was the fate of this unhappy man that few promises of any advantage to him were performed. His mother was infected, among others, with the general madness of the South Sea traffic; and having been disappointed in her expectations, refused to pay what perhaps nothing but the prospect of sudden ...

— Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift • Samuel Johnson

... had been no remedy but Rome must have wholly been ruined, and all those who remained in it utterly destroyed; such was the terror that those who escaped the battle brought with them into the city, and with such distraction and confusion were they themselves in turn infected. But the Gauls, not imagining their victory to be so considerable, and overtaken with the present joy, fell to feasting and dividing the spoil, by which means they gave leisure to those who were for leaving the city to make their ...

— The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch - Being Parts of The "Lives" of Plutarch • Plutarch

... pestilential disease was superadded which committed dreadful ravages in Chili, especially among the natives. During the incursions of Villagran into the Araucanian territory, some Spanish soldiers, who were either infected at the time or had recently recovered from the small pox, communicated that fatal disease for the first time to the Araucanians, among whom it spread with the more direful and rapid destruction, as they were utterly unacquainted ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5 • Robert Kerr

... Contagious, often fatal epidemic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia (syn. Pasteurella) pestis, transmitted from person to person or by the bite of fleas from an infected rodent, especially a rat; produces chills, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... who was infected by the excitement and the national music. "Hey, but we will fecht, Maister Ken! we'll die for ye. ...

— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn

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