Definition of infect

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Infect (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..

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Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air..
Beleper :: Beleper (v. t.) To infect with leprosy.
Chlorine :: Chlorine (n.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4..
Infectiously :: Infectiously (adv.) In an infectious manner.
Disinfection :: Disinfection (n.) The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.
Taintless :: Taintless (a.) Free from taint or infection; pure.
Fumigation :: Fumigation (n.) The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection..
Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague..
Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
Infect :: Infect (v. t.) Infected. Cf. Enfect.
Pestiferous :: Pestiferous (a.) Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies..
Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating..
Taking :: Taking (a.) Infectious; contageous.
Poison :: Poison (n.) To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink..
Infecter :: Infecter (n.) One who, or that which, infects..
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) An infecting influence.
Malaria :: Malaria (n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma..
Leprous :: Leprous (a.) Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy.
Lazar :: Lazar (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
Smittle :: Smittle (v. t.) To infect.
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