Infect is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INFECT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to contaminate with germs
• affect (a person, organism, etc.) with a disease-causing organism
• contaminate (air, water, etc.) with harmful organisms
• affect with a virus
• (of a negative feeling or idea) take hold of or be communicated to (someone)
• affect with a disease
• Infected. Cf. Enfect.
• 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.
• 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.
• To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.
• communicate a disease to
• contaminate with a disease or microorganism
• corrupt with ideas or an ideology
• affect in a contagious way
ADJECTIVE:
• contaminated or polluted with or as if with a disease
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to contaminate with disease-producing germs

Words related to INFECT

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Words that contain INFECT

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How to use INFECT in a sentence

• Fie, countrymen! what fury doth infect Your warlike bosoms, that were wont to fight With foreign foes, not with Campanian friends.
• Coombe had discovered her endeavouring to infect Jane with her delusions.
• Besides, I should be apprehensive lest the same Arts which are to enable him to negotiate between Potentates might a little infect his ordinary behaviour between Man and Man.
• How long did this pronunciation last in England? to how many words did it extend? and did it infect any of Saxon root? It is impossible to say.
• The reason why they infect the spirit and are of the flesh even in the spirit, is, because the spirit, and not the flesh, is sensible of those things which happen in the flesh.
• As to his last assertion, how else could he make the child comprehend God at all? Besides, how cruel it would be to infect him with his own miserable convictions.
• Kingsley has been represented as intensely hostile to the North, and as using all his endeavor to infect his pupils with his opinions.
• Now certainly a work of art is a work of art to us only if it does so infect us, but Tolstoy is not content with that.
• The animals might be sacrificed, but man could never infect them with the leprosy of flattery.
• But he could not infect Hiram Look with his dissatisfaction.
• An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
• Burleigh Wentworth was in uproarious spirits which seemed to infect nearly everyone else.
• His art is pointed to quicken, to infect, to begin an action that the listener must complete within himself.
• These fleas become infected by biting the infected rats and subsequently infect human beings by biting them.
• One case, if not promptly reported to the health office and removed to the hospital, would invariably infect the whole neighborhood.
• Those must be the final form that was released to infect others.
• So I pointed out to her the help he would get from encouragement, and the possible hurt he would take were her fears to infect him.
• Defile, infect, soil, stain, sully, taint, tarnish.
• Because the milk doth grow sour in the stomach, where evil humours are bred, and infect the breath.
• But unless they can show that all the circumstances are identical, they have no right to infect the morning with their twilight fears.
• That, however, is fatal to any attempt to infect minds with the Haytian bug-bear, now that political discussion threatens to ravage the country which our arms are saving.
• A zealot might allow his neighbours to be damned in peace, did not a certain heretical odour emitted by them infect the sanctuary and disturb his own dogmatic calm.
• Poets and artists thus infect in a measure all those who yield to their influence.
• The Committee also recommend further provision to deal with cases in which persons suffering from venereal disease are not under medical treatment and are likely to infect others.

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