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verbcontaminate with a disease or microorganism
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"His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"verbaffect in a contagious way
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"Your children have infected you with this head cold"verbcommunicate a disease totype of:
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"society was infected by racism"verbcorrupt with ideas or an ideology
Definition that contains infect
- tuberculosis infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
- meningitis infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea
- tb infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
- virulent infectious; having the ability to cause disease
- canker infect with a canker
- ringworm infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches
- hiv infection by the human immunodeficiency virus
- roundworm infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches
- psittacosis infectious disease of birds
- abscessed infected and filled with pus