| infect | | |
| v. (body) | 1. infect | communicate a disease to.; "Your children have infected you with this head cold" |
| ~ canker | infect with a canker. |
| ~ give | cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense.; "She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold" |
| v. (body) | 2. infect, taint | contaminate with a disease or microorganism. |
| ~ superinfect | infect (an infected cell) further or infect a cell already containing similar organisms. |
| ~ smut | affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn. |
| ~ contaminate, pollute, foul | make impure.; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" |
| v. (social) | 3. infect | corrupt with ideas or an ideology.; "society was infected by racism" |
| ~ corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, vitiate, subvert | corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. infect | affect in a contagious way.; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room" |
| ~ impress, strike, affect, move | have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" |
| taint | | |
| n. (state) | 1. contamination, taint | the state of being contaminated. |
| ~ impureness, impurity | the condition of being impure. |
| ~ dust contamination | state of being contaminated with dust. |
| v. (contact) | 2. cloud, corrupt, defile, sully, taint | place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.; "sully someone's reputation" |
| ~ mar, deflower, impair, vitiate, spoil | make imperfect.; "nothing marred her beauty" |
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