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1. Communicate a disease to
   "Your children have infected you with this head cold"
    
2. Contaminate with a disease or microorganism
   - taint
    
3. Corrupt with ideas or an ideology
   "society was infected by racism"
    
4. Affect in a contagious way
   "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"

Derived forms: infects, infected, infecting

Type of: affect, contaminate, corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise [Brit], demoralize, deprave, foul, give, impress, misdirect, move, pervert, pollute, profane, strike, subvert, vitiate

Encyclopedia: Infect