| VERB | body | infect | communicate a disease to |
|---|---|---|---|
| body | infect, taint | contaminate with a disease or microorganism | |
| social | infect | corrupt with ideas or an ideology / ideology | |
| cognition | infect | affect in a contagious way |
| Sounds | ihnfeh'kt | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abject ... wrecked: 66 rhymes with ehkt... | |
| Meaning | Communicate a disease to. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody with something | |
| Example | "Your children have infected you with this head cold" | |
| Narrower | canker | infect with a canker |
| Broader | give | Cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense |
| Spanish | contagiar, contaminar, encomendar, infectar | |
| Catalan | contaminar, encomanar, infectar | |
| Adjectives | infective | caused by infection or capable of causing infection |
| infective | able to cause disease | |
| Nouns | infection | an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted |
| Meaning | contaminate with a disease or microorganism. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Synonym | taint | |
| Narrower | smut | affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn |
| superinfect | infect (an infected cell) further or infect a cell already containing similar organisms | |
| Broader | pollute, foul, contaminate | make impure |
| Opposite | disinfect | Destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing |
| Spanish | contagiar, impurificar, infectar, inficionar, manchar | |
| Catalan | contagiar, contaminar, infectar | |
| Adjectives | infective | caused by infection or capable of causing infection |
| infective | able to cause disease | |
| Nouns | infection | (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease |
| infection | the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms | |
| Meaning | Corrupt with ideas or an ideology / ideology. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "society was infected by racism" | |
| Broader | corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect | corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality |
| Meaning | affect in a contagious way. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Example | "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room" | |
| Broader | affect, impress, move, strike | Have an emotional or cognitive impact / impact upon |
| Nouns | infection | the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people |
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