| Verb | 1. | infect - communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold"give - cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense; "She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold" | |
| 2. | infect - contaminate with a disease or microorganismsuperinfect - 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 disinfect - destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing; "disinfect a wound" | |
| 3. | infect - contaminate 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" | |
| 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" | |