Associations to the word «Infect»

Wiktionary

INFECT, verb. (transitive) To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).
INFECT, verb. (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion.
INFECT, adjective. (obsolete) Infected.

Dictionary definition

INFECT, verb. Communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold".
INFECT, verb. Contaminate with a disease or microorganism.
INFECT, verb. Corrupt with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism".
INFECT, verb. Affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley